Make several files consistent

Three files open together in Harmonization: sets of rows that translate the same source differently, with differences marked by letter; near-matches; and shared phrases across files. A phrase is added to the termbase, and one set is aligned on the chosen wording, which reopens the changed row for confirmation.

1. What Harmonization finds (no model is called)

   Harmonization looks across the files you open together for three kinds of inconsistency. It suggests nothing and calls no model: you decide which wording stays.

   

2. Select the files and choose Open Selected Files Together

   Two Ferlanda quick-start guides, translated at different times by different people, and a new warranty leaflet. The client wants all three to say the same things the same way. Select the three files and choose Open Selected Files Together.

   

3. Click the Harmonization button to see the sets

   Click the Harmonization button. Each set is one Italian sentence and every row that translates it. The first set is the cleaning warning in all three files: rows 9, 23 and 30, each with its file's colour, and row 23 says it differently. The numbers are the rows' places in the document, so the sets are not in document order.

   

4. Tick Mark the differences

   Tick Mark the differences. Each wording gets a letter. The most common wording is A and is not marked: it is the baseline, not necessarily the right one. In the other wordings the words that differ are tinted. Row 23 is too different to mark word by word, so it is only lettered B.

   

5. Click Near-matches

   Click Near-matches. These two sentences differ by one word, MAX and indicato, but their translations differ far more: Fill the water tank… up to the MAX mark and Pour fresh water into the reservoir…. AV can't align them, because they aren't the same sentence. Edit them yourself.

   

6. Click Shared phrases, tick Target agreement and choose a phrase

   Click Shared phrases and tick Target agreement, then choose con un panno morbido e asciutto. It appears in all three files. Rows 10 and 31 share the wording a soft, dry cloth (A); row 21 says a dry, soft cloth. A phrase is part of a sentence, so AV can't rewrite it for you: edit row 21 yourself if you want it to match.

   

7. Click Add to termbase and fill in the term

   To keep the wording from now on, click Add to termbase. AV fills in the Italian and leaves the English to you. Here it is trimmed to panno morbido e asciutto → soft, dry cloth, and Glossary, which is ticked by default, is unticked so the term goes only to the termbase.

   

8. Click Add term, Back to sets, then align on the wording to keep

   Click Add term: Term added to: termbase "Ferlanda terms". Then Back to sets. To make the cleaning warning agree, click align on the row whose wording you want, here row 9. Only row 23 changes, because row 30 already agrees with row 9. Row 23 was confirmed, so it is reopened for you to review.

   

9. Click Confirm

   Confirm. Row 23 now reads like rows 9 and 30, the set says CONSISTENT, and row 23 is unconfirmed and marked as reopened. Nothing is written to the TM until you confirm it.

   

10. Click Exit, read the row in context and confirm it with Ctrl+Enter

    Click Exit to return to the document. Row 23 is reopened, and the counter has dropped by its 13 words. The change is saved, like any edit, when you press Sync or leave the editor. Read row 23 in its context, then confirm it with Ctrl+Enter.

    

11. What Harmonization does, and doesn't

    Harmonization finds inconsistencies across the files you open together, and aligns a set on the wording you choose. Everything else stays with you.