[Resolved] formatting markers in original text which should not be there

Hi Bobby,

many thanks for your suggestions.

I was able to copy the string with the marker and paste it into the translation, then translate it, but I still can't save it although the marker does now show up in the translated string.

I also tried re-writing the original text in Colibri editor, making sure there are no line breaks in it at all. Unfortunately, in the translation editor it shows again a line break just before the end of the string at the same place as before.

I tried to switch to code editor but cannot find the tab to do so. I opened the page via the dashboard and this message shows when i try to edit in default editor - see image.

where can I find the tab to switch to code editor so that I can take the line break code out of the original string?

Many thanks for your help with this.

Moritz

Hi Bobby

thanks for your reply, before I reply via the secure form could you please check the image to see if this is the backup I needed to take?

I don't know where the backup is stored, in case I need access down the line, and some of the information required in the secure form is beyond me. For example, what are FTP details and server protection details and where can I find them?

Many thanks,
Moritz

Hi Bobby

Sorry I was away on a CPRD event. I'm now ready to send you the details required, but the secure form is no longer accessible now (when I click on the link from the previous email or the latest email it takes me just to this option here, but not the secure form).

Could you please re-send it so that I can provide the login details etc required?

With many thanks,
Moritz

Hi Bobby

Many thanks for the suggestions. I tried translating the entire Services page and after inserting line breaks into the translation I managed to eventually save them.

However, these line breaks now show on the German version of the website - see image below.

The issue is that these line breaks should never have been there in the first place - i.e. in the original text. Inserting them into the translation destroys the appearance. So, unfortunately this is not a solution.

How did you "break" the translation segments? Did you do this in the source or in the target language segment, and how? I cannot see anything on the editor that allows me to break segements into smaller ones, and google research did not produce any solutions.

I may have to go into the code to remove the line breaks in the original segments that should not be there - how do I do that? All methods I have tried have not worked.

Another longer term issue is that I do not want to use automated translation because it simply is not good enough. As a translator I need to showcase best practice on my website in order to attract business, not mediocre machine translated stuff. As such, I don't need and don't want to pay for machine translation via credits, I can do all that myself.

With kind regards,
Moritz