Editors

Formatting and special characters

How formatting survives translation, what the editor toolbar offers, and where to find special characters.

When a document is imported, every piece of inline formatting (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, super/subscript, colors, highlights) is captured as markup attached to the segment. You see it rendered in the editors, you can edit it with the toolbar, and it is restored precisely when the document is rebuilt for export.

The editing toolbar

• Text styles: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript (Ctrl+B/I/U for the first three).
• Color and highlight: apply or clear text colors and highlight colors.
• Special characters: a picker with the characters translators actually need: non-breaking spaces, dashes, guillemets, quotation marks per language, currency and legal symbols.
• Undo / redo: within the segment you are editing.

Keeping formatting intact

The QA checks include an inline-tag check: if the source segment is half bold and your target lost the bold, the editor flags it. Layout-only elements (image anchors, tab stops, page structure) are shown as markers you can position but not break.

Why formatting stays with the segment

Bold, italic, highlight, and superscript can carry meaning, so inline formatting is stored with the segment instead of being added again after translation. The tag check identifies a source tag that is missing or mismatched in the target before export.