Individual Words, Sentences, Placeholders in Keywords

The dictionary accepts keywords as individual words, sentences, and placeholders.

The following table shows individual words, sentences, and keywords with placeholders in the source language en_US.

Individual word	Sentence	Keyword with placeholder
contactor	connection point	Rectifier %0 phase
device	actuator sheet	Terminal with %0 connectors
measurand	Screw compressor, with electric motor	PE terminal, %0 targets
lubrication	Wire jumper	With LED (%0=) %1st lev. with %2 lev./supply bl

Individual words

Individual words are keywords consisting of only one word. A keyword that you enter in a source language as an individual word may be a sentence in the translated text for another language.

Example:

Keywords that in the source language en_US are single words and are translated in the target language fr_FR as sentences.

en_US	fr_FR
angle	angle de rotation
assembly	groupe de composants
component	symbole graphique
measurand	grandeur de mesure

Keywords that in the source language en_US are single words and are also translated in the target language fr_FR as individual words.

en_US	fr_FR
wire	fil
device	composant
channel	canal
project	projet

Sentences

A sentence consists of at least two individual words separated by a space or a punctuation mark. This means that a term composed of two single words is managed as a sentence.

A keyword that you enter in a source language as a sentence may be an individual word in the translated text for another language.

Example:

Keywords that in the source language en_US are sentences and are translated in the target language fr_FR as individual words.

en_US	fr_FR
connection point	raccordement
Actuator motor	Servomoteur

Keywords that in the source language en_US are sentences and are also translated in the target language fr_FR as sentences.

en_US	fr_FR
Bridge Rectifier	Redresseur en pont
PCT loop	Position PCT
Number of pages	Nombre de pages
Part and device tag lists	Listes des articles et des composants
Remains energized when main switch is opened	Sous tension lorsque l'interrupteur principal est ouvert

End of sentence

A period is an option for ending a sentence, but it is not required. When translating sentences, the end of the sentence is recognized when a full stop, an exclamation mark, or a question mark is followed by a space or line break.

Entire entry

The entire entry is the entire content of a text field.

End of sentence character

The punctuation marks . (period), ! (exclamation mark), and ? (question mark) can occur at the end of words and sentences. Whether EPLAN interprets these as end of sentence characters depends on the type of segmentation you set under Options > Settings > User > Translation > General in the Segment field.

Example:

The following table shows when EPLAN interprets punctuation marks as end of sentence characters, depending on the type of segmentation.

Segmentation	Text	End of sentence character
Sentence	Circ.-Breaker, Parts a. Devices. Part and device tag lists!	Period after: a. Period after: Devices. Exclamation mark after: lists!
Entire entry	Circ.-Breaker, Parts a. Devices. Part and device tag lists!	Exclamation mark after: lists!

Segmentation

Text

End of sentence character

Sentence

Circ.-Breaker, Parts a. Devices. Part and device tag lists!

Period after:

Devices.

Exclamation mark after:

lists!

Entire entry

Circ.-Breaker, Parts a. Devices. Part and device tag lists!

Exclamation mark after:

lists!

Keywords with placeholders

Text entries on project pages often have the same text with different numbers, e.g.:

PE terminal, 2 targets
PE terminal, 4 targets

You can enter keywords with placeholders for these text entries into the dictionary. These keywords consist of one fixed and one dynamic element. The fixed element is translated. The dynamic element is entered into the dictionary using the placeholder character % and a number, e.g., %0 or %3. The dynamic element is filled with numeric values during translation.

A keyword can contain a maximum of 10 placeholders: %0, %1, %2, %3, %4, %5, %6, %7, %8, %9.

Example:

The following table provides a selection of possible keywords with placeholders in the source language en_US and the target language fr_FR.

en_US	fr_FR
Rectifier %0 phase	Redresseur %0-phase(s)
%0 terminals with %1 connection points	%0 bornes avec %1 raccordements
plant section %0 plant part %1 separator %2	section de l'installation %0 partie d'installation %1 collecteur %2

Keywords with placeholders can also be used for texts at which one component is always the same and is translated while the other component varies and is identified as "not to be translated", for example:

Emergency-stop switch +A
Emergency-stop switch +B
Emergency-stop switch +AP

This identification for multilingual texts is effected in the respective field by means of the popup menu item Mark text as 'Excluded from translation'. A corresponding keyword with placeholder characters (for example "Emergency-stop switch %0") has to exist in the dictionary so that a translation can be effected irrespective of the Segment translation setting.