User-defined ignores
The User-defined ignores tab helps to reduce the number of false positives.
If you want to exclude a false positive from the report, add it to the ignore list using patterns to describe it.
The tab consists of two tables. In the first table – Ignore rules (1) – you can:
Example 1
The group Inconsistent measurement units includes segments with the abbreviation e.g. (meaning “for example”). The reason is that “g” is a symbol for grams in measurement units and universally used in alphabets with the Latin script. That’s why the measurement unit check requires that “g” from the source text is also found in the translation. Otherwise, it reports an error.
To exclude the abbreviation from the report, you can add it to the list of ignore rules.
To do so, follow the next steps:
Example 2
The group Different amount of mathematical signs includes segments with ranges of numbers formulated by hyphens, dashes or minus signs. This happens when the translation uses words, not a sign, within the range, and vice versa. As the source and target segments contains a different amount of range signs, Verifika reports an error.
If you do not have any specific requirements regarding ranges, you can add a user-defined ignore for them.
To do so, follow the next steps:
If you want to exclude a false positive from the report, add it to the ignore list using patterns to describe it.
The tab consists of two tables. In the first table – Ignore rules (1) – you can:
- Enter the Rule name. For example, providing a brief description of it.
- Enter the Pattern number. If there is only one pattern, just enter its number. If there are several patterns, link them using Boolean operators:
- AND, when you need all patterns to be applied to a segment;
- OR, when you need just one of them.
- Different amount of mathematical signs
- Wrong mathematical signs order
- Inconsistent measurement units
- Invalid number formatting
- No untranslatable in source
- No untranslatable in target
- Different number of source and target untranslatables
- Enter the Pattern number: 1, 2, 3, etc.
- Define the Search range, in other words, boundaries within which the search is performed. The following options are available:
- Before highlighting
- Inside highlighting
- After highlighting
- Ignore highlighting
- Select the Mode. For more information about the search modes please refer to Search and Replace Window.
- Enter the Search pattern. Here you can type the source and/or target expressions that Verifika will define as ignores and exclude from the list of detected errors. It can be any specific word, phrase, symbol, tag, etc., as well as a common string pattern represented in a regular expression.
Example 1
The group Inconsistent measurement units includes segments with the abbreviation e.g. (meaning “for example”). The reason is that “g” is a symbol for grams in measurement units and universally used in alphabets with the Latin script. That’s why the measurement unit check requires that “g” from the source text is also found in the translation. Otherwise, it reports an error.
To exclude the abbreviation from the report, you can add it to the list of ignore rules.
To do so, follow the next steps:
- Click New at the bottom of the first table.
- In the row that appears, enter the Rule name.
- Then go to the second table and enter the Pattern number.
- If you want the rule to work not only for the highlighted letter “g” but include the whole abbreviation, select Ignore highlighting in the Search range field.
- Open the Mode drop-down list and select Source text is found, but target text is not.
- In the Search pattern field, type the abbreviation e.g. for the source expression.
- Then go back to the first table and enter the pattern number in the Pattern numbers field.
- Open the Error type drop-down list and select Inconsistent measurement units.
Example 2
The group Different amount of mathematical signs includes segments with ranges of numbers formulated by hyphens, dashes or minus signs. This happens when the translation uses words, not a sign, within the range, and vice versa. As the source and target segments contains a different amount of range signs, Verifika reports an error.
If you do not have any specific requirements regarding ranges, you can add a user-defined ignore for them.
To do so, follow the next steps:
- Click New at the bottom of the first table.
- In the row that appears, enter the Rule name.
- Then go to the second table and enter the Pattern number.
- If you want the rule to work not only for the highlighted area but include the adjacent numbers, select Ignore highlighting in the Search range
- Open the Mode drop-down list and select Source and target texts are found because the number range should be present in both the source and the translation.
- Go to the Search pattern field and type the regular expression describing the pattern for a range (two digits with a hyphen or a dash between them) for the source segment. In the expression for the target segment, type the word used for the range instead of the range sign.
- Do not forget to click the R button to let the software “know” it’s a regular expression, not a plain text.
- To add another pattern for a case where the source text uses a word, but the translation uses a sign, click New at the bottom of the second table.
- The pattern is similar to the previous one, you need just to swap the expressions. Now, in the upper field, type the expression with the word used in the source language. Then copy the expression from the upper field of the previous pattern to the lower field of this one.
- In the first table enter the Pattern numbers and link them using the Boolean operator “OR”.
- Open the Error type drop-down list and select Different amount of mathematical signs.