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    <link type="guide" xref="index" group="fourth"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="gtr-wizzard"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="gtr-quickstart"/>
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    <revision pkgversion="2.91.5" date="2012-08-24" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Radina Matic</name>
     <email>radina.matic@gmail.com</email>
     <years>2012</years>
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  <title>Understand Gtranslator main window</title>

  <p>The main Gtranslator window contains the <gui>Menubar</gui>, <gui>Toolbar</gui> and the <gui>Workspace</gui>. <gui>Workspace</gui> allows you to visualize and edit the strings contained in the PO file. It is divided into three areas:</p>
  
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  <title>Gtranslator window</title>
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<p><gui>Message Table</gui> (<em>see the red area on the image above</em>) contains columns with the list of all the strings (messages) in the source language on the left (<gui>Original Message</gui>), and their corresponding translations on the right (<gui>Translated Message</gui>). Depending on the size of the <app>Gtranslator</app> window and the number of the words, you may only view the beginning of the string.</p>

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<p>Below the <gui>Message Table</gui> there are two fields which display the full content of the selected strings (<em>blue area on the image above</em>). The field <gui>Original Message</gui> is not editable but allows you to see the the entire content of the string, and the field <gui>Translated Text</gui> is where you type the translation.</p>

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<p>Sidebar on the right (<em>green area on the image above</em>)contains the <gui>Translation Memory</gui> and the <gui>Message Details</gui> panels with additional information for the translation process.</p>

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  <p>To view the <gui>Message Details</gui> panel, use the shortcut <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>J</key></keyseq>.</p>
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<note style="warning">
  <p>To be able to view the <gui>Translation Memory</gui> panel, you need to activate the <em style="strong">Translation Memory plugin</em>: click the <gui>Gtranslator</gui> app menu in the top bar, select <guiseq><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Plugins</gui></guiseq> tab, and activate the corresponding check box.</p>
   
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  <title>Open <gui>Preferences</gui> from the top bar</title>
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  <title>Activate Translation Memory plugin</title>
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