Tags and Markers
In this guide: What is a tag? What is a marker? Learn how to use them to retain styles and special characters in your document.
Redokun uses tags and markers to retain document formatting and special characters.
Tags
Tags are used to indicate and preserve the formatting of paragraphs with style changes in them, such as bold, italic, or underlined text.
⚠️ If the source text contains tags, the translator should input the same tags in the translation of all affected segments.
Redokun automatically checks for the presence of tags while translating online or importing the translated sentences.
Markers
Markers are used to ease the usage of special characters.
Unlike tags, the presence of markers in the translated segment is not enforced by Redokun.
Generally, you would not need to input additional markers, but only keep the ones present in the original phrase.
In many cases, you might also want to convert soft-returns or special spaces to classic spaces in order to make the extracted text "cleaner" from markers. That way, you would be able to reuse more of your approved translations in future documents.
Convert soft returns to classic spaces
- Go to Settings.
- Go to Advanced Settings.
- Flag the option
Convert Soft-returns.
Convert special spaces to classic spaces
- Go to Settings.
- Go to Advanced Settings.
- Flag the option
Convert special spaces.
List of InDesign control markers
| pageNumber | Page number |
| rightIndentTab | Right indent tab |
| endNestedStyle | End nested style |
| footNote | Foot note |
| indentHereTab | Indent here tab |
| section | Section marker |
List of special chars markers
| Space | |
|---|---|
| noBreakSpace | No-break Space |
| oghamSpace | Ogham Space Mark |
| mongolianVowelSeparator | Mongolian Vowel Separator |
| enQuad | En Quad |
| emQuad | Em Quad |
| enSpace | En Space |
| emSpace | Em Space |
| threePerEmSpace | Three-Per-Em Space |
| fourPerEmSpace | Four-Per-Em Space |
| sixPerEmSpace | Six-Per-Em Space |
| figureSpace | Figure Space |
| punctuationSpace | Punctuation Space |
| thinSpace | Thin Space |
| hairSpace | Hair Space |
| zeroWidthSpace | Hair Space |
| horizontalEllipsis | Horizontal Ellipsis |
| softReturn | Soft return |
| paragraphSeparator | Paragraph separator |
| narrowNoBreakSpace | Narrow no-break Space |
| mediumMathematicalSpace | Medium Mathematical Space |
| ideographicSpace | Ideographic Space |
| zeroWidthNoBreakSpace | Zero Width No-Break Space |
| Superscript | |
| superscript:latinSmallLetterI | Superscript latin small letter I |
| superscript:plusSign | Superscript plus sign |
| superscript:minusSign | Superscript minus sign |
| superscript:equalsSign | Superscript equals sign |
| superscript:leftParenthesis | Superscript left parenthesis |
| superscript:rightParenthesis | Superscript right parenthesis |
| superscript:latinSmallLetterN | Superscript latin small letter N |
| superscript:NUMBER | Superscript number (0-9) |
| Subscript | |
| subscript:plusSign | Subscript plus sign |
| subscript:minusSign | Subscript minus sign |
| subscript:equalsSign | Subscript equal sign |
| subscript:leftParenthesis | Subscript left parenthesis |
| subscript:rightParenthesis | Subscript right parenthesis |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterA | Subscript latin small letter A |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterE | Subscript latin small letter E |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterO | Subscript latin small letter O |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterX | Subscript latin small letter X |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterSchwa | Subscript latin small letter Schwa |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterH | Subscript latin small letter H |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterK | Subscript latin small letter K |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterL | Subscript latin small letter L |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterM | Subscript latin small letter M |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterN | Subscript latin small letter N |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterP | Subscript latin small letter P |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterS | Subscript latin small letter S |
| subscript:latinSmallLetterT | Subscript latin small letter T |
| subscript:NUMBER | Subscript number (0-9) |
| Symbol | |
| bullet | Bullet |
| Unicode | |
| unicode:CODE | Unicode Private Use Areas (used by third party glyphs - Font Awesome, Glyphicons, etc - and other third party control characters) |