Skip translation of text in between music symbols

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
desktop, localization

Research direction

Start by tracing Subtitle Edit's translation workflow and how subtitle text and formatting are passed to the translator. Use the music-symbol examples in the issue to define the cases to handle; done should mean an optional, disabled-by-default setting prevents lyrics between music symbols from being offered for translation while preserving the subtitle content and placement.

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Description

After I used SE to create a translation of a subttitle I sometimes open the 2 files in Notepad++ and copy all the lyrics from the original and replace those parts in the translated subtitle.

I prefer to keep the lyrics in their original language.

This is a lot of work. This morning it took me one and a half hour to copy paste it at their right position.

If SE would not even offer those parts to the translator, it would be a great time saver and it doesn't stop there.
The amount of words I am able to translate each month is also limited, so it

Of course such a feature should be optional and disabled by default, but I would turn it on immediately.

I always clean up my source subtitle beforehand, so all lyrics will look like this one...

1025
01:01:43,656 --> 01:01:48,182
<i>♪ Heard there was a secret chord ♪</i>

1026
01:01:48,574 --> 01:01:52,491
<i>♪ That David played
And it pleased the Lord ♪</i>

1027
01:01:52,665 --> 01:01:58,323
<i>♪ But you don't really care
For music, do ya? ♪</i>

1028
01:02:00,499 --> 01:02:04,590
<i>♪ But it goes like this
The fourth the fifth ♪</i>

I really hope this is going to be implemented as it would be a great time saver for me.

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