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Placeholders are used to encapsulate a few special characters, or tags. A Wordfast placeholder always has the following format: <span style="color:#FF0000">X</span>;  where <span style="color:#FF0000">X</span> can take various values: <span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size: 10">&t=; &tA; &t1; &t#;</span> , etc.
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Placeholders are used to encapsulate a few special characters, or tags. A WFC placeholder always has the following format: &tX;  where X can take various values: &t=; &tA; &t1; &t#; , etc.
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{| border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse;"
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|-
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|&t1;
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|a placeholder for a Word graphic;
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|-
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|&t2;
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|a placeholder for a Word footnote/endnote;
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|-
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|&t9;
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|a tabulator mark;
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|-
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|&t#;
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|a manual line feed;
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|-
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|&tA; &tB; &tC; ... &t¥;
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|constitute 100 placeholders for tags;
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|-
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|&t=<some tag="here">;
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|records an "unknown" tag. Unknown tags are found only in a target segment, but not in the matching source segment. Colons in the tag are escaped with a backward slash \.
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|}
  
&t1; is a placeholder for a Word graphic;
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'''Note to engineers'''
 
 
&t2; is a placeholder for a Word footnote/endnote;
 
 
 
&t9; is a tabulator mark;
 
 
 
&t#; is a manual line feed;
 
  
&tA; &tB; &tC; ... &t¥; constitute 100 placeholders for tags;
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The ampersand, quotes, as well as < and > characters are not considered escaping character. The ampersand is not escaped. The WFC TM format is not a member of the SGML/HTML/XML family. The WFC TM format is simple text, tab-delimited.
  
&t=;<some tag="here">&t=; records an "unknown" tag - those can be found only in a target segment, never in a source segment.
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'''Limitation:''' A WFC TM would create a slightly fuzzy match with text containing the &tX; placeholder, as in this very paragraph. That is a known and accepted minor limitation that has not happened yet in decades.
 
 
'''Note to engineers'''
 
The ampersand is not considered an escaping character, as in SGML/XML. It is not escaped.
 
  
A Wordfast TM would create slightly fuzzy matches with text containing the <span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size: 10">&t<span style="color:#FF0000">X</span>;</span> placeholders, as in this very paragraph.
 
 
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Latest revision as of 07:29, 6 November 2017

Placeholders are used to encapsulate a few special characters, or tags. A WFC placeholder always has the following format: &tX; where X can take various values: &t=; &tA; &t1; &t#; , etc.

&t1; a placeholder for a Word graphic;
&t2; a placeholder for a Word footnote/endnote;
&t9; a tabulator mark;
&t#; a manual line feed;
&tA; &tB; &tC; ... &t¥; constitute 100 placeholders for tags;
&t=<some tag="here">; records an "unknown" tag. Unknown tags are found only in a target segment, but not in the matching source segment. Colons in the tag are escaped with a backward slash \.

Note to engineers

The ampersand, quotes, as well as < and > characters are not considered escaping character. The ampersand is not escaped. The WFC TM format is not a member of the SGML/HTML/XML family. The WFC TM format is simple text, tab-delimited.

Limitation: A WFC TM would create a slightly fuzzy match with text containing the &tX; placeholder, as in this very paragraph. That is a known and accepted minor limitation that has not happened yet in decades.

 Back to Wordfast Classic User Manual