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Option 1: Translate in Context

Option 1 displays a sample screen of the panel with all literals in their correct positions. The user positions the cursor on a literal and presses Enter; the literal is then capable of input and can be overtyped. The user presses Enter again to update the entry in the target message file.

If the text in the subject literal has already been translated elsewhere, a Select Previous window displays all such translations. One of these may be selected instead; if none of the existing translations is suitable, the user can press the F12 key to return and translate this literal individually.

If a literal has been translated before, but the original text has since been changed, the previous text will have been archived. If found, this archived text will be displayed as the first entry in the Select Previous window.

If other occurrences of the original text are found in the subject literal, another window advises of this and provides a facility to update each of them with the current translated text.

Where literals overlap, a "+" symbol is shown in front of the first entry, indicating the second one. To translate the second entry, you use option 2 to display the List screen, as described in the next section.

Scroll Left/Right and Page Up/Down are provided for panels wider or longer than the standard 24 x 80 screen (for example, 132 column reports).