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To configure pseudotranslation in memoQ, you go under the Tools menu...
to Options...
and Machine Translation.
Here you see a list of all of the machine translation plug-ins offered by Kilgray.
The one that we want is a little farther down in the list, so we're going to scroll to it.
It's the memoQ pseudotranslation plug-in.
To enable it, you simply mark the corresponding checkbox.
There are also options available,
and if you want you can determine
which characters are substituted for which other characters when you do the pseudotranslation
However, that's not absolutely necessary to use the function.
OK, once you've enabled the plug-in you click OK,
and then you go under the Operations menu.
Pseudotranslation is a form of pre-translation, so we'll find it under
Operations...
Pre-Translate...
and in the pretranslation dialog you see the checkbox for "Use machine translation"
and in this particular case we've enabled pseudotranslation, so this is the type of so-called machine translation that will be used in this case.
So we will mark "machine translation",
click OK
and then the pseudotranslation takes place.
and as you can see the program has gone through and substituted nonsense characters for the original characters
and pre-fixed everything with a hash mark
and then put a dollar sign at the end of everything. These are all configurable options, so you
can have different characters substituted,
and you'll notice that where tags are present in the source, they are present in the target.
Where there's bold text in the source, there's bold text in the target.
Italics in the source correspond with italics in the target and any other formatting that's present.
Once the pseudotranslation has been completed, you can then export your file
and then check it and make sure that it will in fact be able to be read in the original environment that created that file.
And here you can see it all comes in. All of the translation content has been processed, and we know that we can successfully complete this project.