Great thanks for clarifying that, Mark - will the coding also allow the use of italics etc without having to remember what the tags are - that would certainly be useful?

That's right. Tagging results appear only in the translation box. It doesn't carry over into the translation in the two-page format. I've asked Ryan to fix it, but it will require coding. Yes, so what I would do, for example, when I prepare an English or Italian translation for Jean-Pierre Martinez, the playwright, I extract the right-hand column and leave the original text behind. Then I clean up the text by highlighting/copying/pasting it into Notepad and highlighting/copying/pasting the .txt file into MS Word. I'd remove the HTML tags (, ), etc., and italicize, bold, or underline as needed. But it would be easier if Translatihan did it automatically in the code.

Sorry, Mark, you are talking to a computer illiterate - I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I have already done what you suggested and it's fine here but shows up with the tags in the right column of the two-column translation. Do you mean copy the translated copy into MS Word, only if you wish to have a copy without the tags? Otherwise use it here and just be aware that the tags will show up without the italicised letters in the two column copy?

I would type the text in the translation box, with the added HTML tags and submit the translation. You should see the marked-up text in the box. Note: the italicized/bolded/underlined text will not show in the two-column translation. The translated column will show the text with the opening and closing HTML tags.

I tried that, it doesn't work.

Hello Mark, do you mean, write the text out on a word document using the italics feature and then copying that into the translation box here?

There is only a slight problem. It looks good in the translation box, but it doesn't carry over into the right-hand column of the translated text. You'll need to copy the translated text into MS Word and use the italics feature to fix it.

Looks good,Wendy!
Thank you and Pierre for your help.

Hello France, I've just learned from Pierre how to form italics - in front of the text and after the text to be italicised.
I wrote it above to try it out to see if it works and it does. What do you think - the text in italics then shows what he is saying in English over the phone, as opposed to what is translated.

Unless of course, you already know how to convert the text into italics!

Hello France, because this text is a translation into English from the original French, the fact that he is then partially speaking to somebody on the phone in English - which is obviously not his mother tongue, and his English is also not so good - not gramatically correct - needs somehow to be made obvious in the translation. I don't know if it is possible to use Italics in this programme, but one could either put the 'English' into italics or perhaps enclose the English expressions in ' . . .' as follows:
I mean, yes . . . The secretary of . . . Yes, yes, 'of course' . . . Good . . . Ah, bloody hell . . . So, 'he cannot come at the restaurant . . . OK ' . . . No, no, it's fine, 'don't worry . . . '
Italics would of course work better and enable the reader to immediately recognise that English is a foreign language for him.
I have asked Mark if it is possible to use italics, because I think that would be the best option to put the English words being used in the original text in italics.

Wendy, I'm not sure to understand clearly what you want. Please, can you show me how to do?

This is tricky, France, because the English grammar is partly incorrect - So, he can't come AT the restaurant . . . (I think this should remain incorrect in the translation)
Maybe you should leave the French sections in their original, to show that he is trying to speak English and leave the English as it is written above, even when incorrect.