Checking files
How to load files, specify settings and run checks.
- Omissions
- Inconsistencies
- Formatting
  - Configuring the formatting check
  - QA settings: formatting - language independent checks
  - QA settings: formatting - language dependent checks
    The language dependent checks verify whether the rules specified in the Language settings are followed.
  - Configuring language settings
  - Language settings
- Regular Expressions
- Terminology
  How to handle terminology verification.
- Search
- Command line processing
  How to use the command line to process files without the graphical user interface

QA settings: formatting - language independent checks

Spacing

Consecutive spaces: QA Distiller looks for two or more consecutive white spaces. White spaces are indicated using their Unicode value. A normal space, for example, is represented by [0020] and a hard space by [00A0].
Inconsistent leading and trailing spaces: QA Distiller checks if the use of white spaces at the beginning or end of the segment is the same in source and target.

Punctuation

Consecutive punctuation marks: QA Distiller looks for two or more consecutive punctuation marks. Also, you get an error whenever QA Distiller finds an ellipsis in the target that is not present in the source.
End of segment punctuation: QA Distiller checks if the end of segment punctuation in source and target segment are identical. You can choose to ignore trailing brackets and quotation marks.

Brackets

Non-matching pairs: QA Distiller checks if every opening bracket has a closing bracket.
Different count: QA Distiller checks if the same number of bracket pairs is used in source and target.

Tabs

Different count: QA Distiller looks for explicit tab characters in the target. They are represented by their Unicode value: [0009].

Capitalisation

QA Distiller checks whether initial or entire capitalisation of source and target are identical.