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Entering Separator Suggestion

A separator suggestion in the dictionary means that a keyword can separated at a desired location. If a line break takes place in a project text, the translated texts, if necessary, are wrapped at the part where the separator suggestion is specified.

Preconditions:

  • You have access to a dictionary containing keywords.
  • You have opened a dictionary.
  1. Select the following commands: Tab Tools > Command group Translation > Dictionary.
  2. Select the Edit words tab.
  3. In the Source language field, select the language that is used for the keyword in the dictionary.
  4. In the Find field enter the existing keyword, and select it in the keyword list.
  5. Place the mouse pointer in the Keyword field where it is that you would like to insert the separator suggestion in the translation text.

    The mouse pointer changes into an insertion mark.
  6. Press the [Alt Gr]+[|] (pipe character) shortcut key.

    EPLAN inserts a vertical line.
  7. Click (Save).

Note:

During translation a word division in the source text is only detected when a lower-case letter follows after the hyphen or the word is written completely in upper-case letters. If a word is, for example, divided before an upper-case letter within the word, the word division is not detected while translating and text is searched with a hyphen.

If the word "AutoCorrect" was, for example, separated before the upper-case "C", a search is carried out for "Auto-Correct" in the dictionary instead of the source text "AutoCorrect". This is, for example, sensible for texts such as "Siemens-S7". If there is a line break before "S7", you must not search for the entry "SiemensS7" in the dictionary but for "Siemens-S7", so no word division is detected.

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