Quick Start Guide

SYSTRAN 7 – Quick Start Guide
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The Corpus Explorer offers a tree-style view of the open Project, serving as the point from
which source Project documents are selected for display in the Document Viewer.
The Document Viewer is the true “workbench” area in STPM. When a Project source
document is selected in the Corpus Explorer a non-WYSIWYG simplified mirrored version
of it displays in the Document Viewer, and it is on this version that all translation review and
customization is performed.
With STPM, you can have multiple Project documents active at the same time. In this
event, the documents are presented in the Document Viewer as tab selections by default.
The software also offers a grouping feature that you can use to simultaneously view
multiple files.
You can use STPM’s Context Action pane to affect single instances of text in a document
file. Its functionality is in contrast to the more pervasive changes that can be made using
STPM’s six (6) review panes; changes that can affect an entire document file, a selection of
document files, or even your entire SYSTRAN installation.
By default, the Context Action pane does not display on the STPM screen at initial
startup. You open it by selecting the View|Context Action Pane command, and once
it is present it remains in place until actively closed.
Performing Translations
At any time while using STPM you may translate or retranslate your entire Project, a subset
of Project documents, or a subset of Project document paragraphs. There are four different
ways to access translation commands, including:
 Selecting the desired command from the Translate menu
 Clicking the Translate button on the Project Toolbar
 Highlighting the file(s) you wish to translate and then selecting the desired
Translate command via the right-click menu
 Via Ctrl+Shift+T keyboard shortcut command
Creating a Project
A Project can be just a single file, or if you are using SYSTRAN Premium it can
comprise a large collection of files containing multiple elements
.
1) Select the File|New Project command, or click the New Project button on the
File toolbar.
2) Enter Project information into the Project Properties dialog fields. Please note that
mandatory fields are indicated in bold text.