In Files tab, add the files to be aligned. In order to make a quick and easy alignment, you should take a few things into account. Firstly, the source and target files should keep the same structure, so WinAlign can match the segments automatically in a more effective manner.
Secondly, the file name should be the same in both versions (or as similar as possible). In this way, when every file is located in its place, you will only have to click Align File Names. If not, every file should be joined with its corresponding translated version. Thirdly, the file type must match the type specified in the General tab. Important: I do REALLY RECOMMEND the files to be aligned have the same name, the same structure and the same type if not, WinAlign may show some issues when creating the alignment. The more work the tool does in its own, the less work we will have to do. In the Export tab you can set the export file options once the files are aligned. The most important item in this section is the Format option. Through this option, we can decide the format the aligned segments will be exported in. tmx option, as this is the export format most commonly supported in the CAT tools. However, I describe below the use of every one of them: You do not have to set anything in the rest of tabs. – Alignment: You can set the segment alignment options here (format, tags, numbers, etc.) and, also, you can add a term list. – Structure Recognition: These are the options for the structure recognition, this is: styles, fonts, paragraph numbering, etc.
– Interface: You can select here which are the options to work with when aligning. When everything is properly set, click OK and (if everything worked fine) WinAlign will start processing the files and aligning automatically. The alignment process is really simple: you only have to match the source segments with the target segments. Even if the software usually does it automatically, it does not get to match the segments correctly some times, so we have to do it one by one. To achieve this, we have a few options to make it quicker. On the left you can find the source file segments and, on the right, the target file segments. Icons appearing next to the segments are the following: Alignment is really simple: you only have to use the lines and match the left segments with the right ones, so both versions match seamlessly, source and translation versions. When opening an alignment for the first time, WinAlign automatically aligns the segments and matches them with a dotted line ( ). These alignments are not confirmed, these are temporary. In order to make them final, we have to accept them, so the lines between them become continuous ( ).
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