Options – Appearance

In the Appearance category of the Options dialog, you can control the fonts and colors that memoQ uses in the Translation grid and in the Translation results pane.

How to begin

In the Application menu, choose Options > Options. Click the Appearance category.

Use

In the Appearance pane, you can select the user interface language that memoQ uses to display commands and messages: from the User interface language drop-down list, select the desired language.

Note: You need to close memoQ and start it again to see commands and messages in the selected language.

Click the Customize the ribbon button to customize the Quick Access Toolbar, the Quick Access and/or Workflow ribbon tab.

Plus, there are two tabs that control how the translation grid and the lookup results appear:

•Translation grid

•Lookup results

The Translation grid tab

Editor fonts section:

•Font family and size: Use these drop-down lists to select the font family and the font size used for displaying text in the translation grid, and in the alignment grid.

•Chinese font family: Use this drop-down list to select the font family used for Chinese text displayed in the translation grid and the alignment grid.

•Japanese font family: Use this drop-down list to select the font family used for Japanese text displayed in the translation grid and the alignment grid.

•Korean font family: Use this drop-down list to select the font family used for Korean text displayed in the translation grid and the alignment grid.

•CCJK font size: Use this drop-down list to select the font size used for Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Japanese and Korean text displayed in the translation grid and the alignment grid.

•Show non-printing characters check box: If checked, memoQ shows non-printing characters such as spaces, tabs, or newlines in the translation grid. Unchecked by default.
 

Editor colors section:

•Text color: Click this color box to select the color used for the text displayed in the translation grid and the alignment grid.

•memoQ {tag} color: Click this color box to select the color used for the legacy memoQ formatting {tags} in the translation grid and the alignment grid.

•Inline tag color: Click this color box to select the background color for the inline tags displayed in the translation grid and the alignment grid.

•Inline tag text color: Click this color box to select the text color for the inline tags displayed in the translation grid and the alignment grid.

•Special tag color: Click this color box to select the color used for special tags displayed in the translation grid and the alignment grid.
 

Status colors section:

•Not started: Click this color box to select the color indicating segments with the Not started status.

•Edited: Click this color box to select the color indicating segments with the Edited status.

•Pre-translated: Click this color box to select the color indicating segments with the Pre-translated status.

•Fragments: Click this color box to select the color indicating segments with the Fragment-assembled status.

•Confirmed: Click this color box to select the color indicating segments with the Confirmed status.

•Rejected: Click this color box to select the color indicating segments with the Rejected status.

The Lookup results tab

This tab controls the fonts and colors for the Translation results pane.

•Font size and CCJK drop-down lists: Select a font size for the characters displayed in the Translation results list.

•Hit type and Hit highlight color: Select the color codes for each match type. You need to set one color for the number of the hit, and another for the background where the text of the match appears. Use the Move up and Move down buttons to change the order of the hit types. According to the hit type order you choose here, the hits will appear in this order in the Translation results pane.

•Disable a hit type in unchecking the Enabled check box next to the hit type. All hit types are enabled by default. The disabled hit type is no longer displayed in the translations result pane.
 

In the Compare control section, you can set a font size and a CCJK font size for text appearing in the compare boxes below the list of lookup results.

You can also choose a markup and a color for each difference type (insertions, changes, deletions).

Navigation

Click OK to close the Options dialog, saving all changes, or click Apply to save changes while keeping the dialog open. Click Cancel to close the dialog without saving changes.