Changing case
To change casing for a selected fragment of text, you can use the shortcut [Shift + F3] to switch between all lowercase, all caps and capitalised.
Working with special characters
Special characters (including zero-width and non-breaking characters) can be found in the “Whitespace characters” section of the Symbols tab.
These special characters include the following:
- Non-breaking space (space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position)
- Non-breaking hyphen (hyphen character that prevents a line break at its position)
At the segment level, the non-breaking space is represented with a degree sign in a blue background:
And the non-breaking hyphen is represented with a hyphen in a blue background:
It is important to note the following:
- These four characters cannot be copied to the search bar (source and target). When attempting to do so, only the character which is used to represent them will be copied. For example, trying to copy a non-breaking space from the source will result in pasting the degree symbol to the search bar.
- For underlined text, the non-breaking spaces are shown on top of the underline. The underline is “hidden” by the blue background of the non-breaking space marking, however it is still applied. You can also check this in the preview.
Applying mismatched formatting to the target text
The formatting options available are dependent on the format of the source file.
For formats that support formatting, such as .docx and .pptx, different formatting is allowed. For example, you can apply italics to the target even when this format is not present in the source.
However, for file formats that do not support formatting, such as .txt, the formatting options are disabled.
Setting text direction
When handling left-to-right (LTR) text in a right-to-left (RTL) language (for example, phone numbers in an Arabic translation), you can use the “Switch selection” feature to change the text direction.
In order to use this feature, first select the fragment of text for which the text direction should be changed, and then click "Switch selection to LTR" under the three-dots menu:
The opposite text direction is applied to the selected text:
Please note that if the target language is LTR, this menu item appears as "Switch selection to RTL".
This feature works by adding a LRM (Left-to-Right Mark) and an RLM (Right-to-Left Mark), which are control (i.e. invisible) characters at the boundaries of the selection.