Maintaining Short Text Editor Settings
You can adapt the short text editor so that it meets your specific requirements by maintaining the settings in transaction SE63. We recommend that you use the standard settings.
To maintain the short text editor settings, access the initial screen of transaction
SE63, choose 
Utilities 
User Settings 
, and then click on the Short Text Editor tab
page.
The checkboxes in the Display group box are selected in the standard setting.
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Display New Lines
If this checkbox is selected, the system displays an object's new (red) lines in the short text editor.
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Display Modified Lines
If this checkbox is selected, the system displays an object's modified (yellow) lines.
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Display Translated Lines
If this checkbox is selected, the system displays an object's translated (green) lines.
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Display Comment for Object
If this checkbox is selected, and if a comment has been entered for a short text object, the system displays it in the short text editor above the very first line to be translated.
The checkboxes in the Workflow group box are deselected in the standard setting.
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Save and Next
If you select this checkbox, you exit the short text editor when you save. If you call up short text objects in a worklist and then choose Sequentially Process Objects, saving an object causes the system to open the next object to be processed in the worklist automatically. For more information on sequentially processing objects in a worklist, see Translating Objects via a Worklist.
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Proposal Pool Maintenance in Dialog Box
If you select this checkbox and then branch from the short text editor to the proposal pool, the system displays the proposal pool in a modal window, which you can move around in front of the short text editor screen. This means you can see the source text and proposal pool at the same time.
The settings in the Segmentation (When Number of Lines is Greater Than 5 Times Segment Size) group box affect the translation of segmented objects.
A maximum of 2,500 short text lines can be displayed in the short text editor. If an object contains more lines of source text, the object is segmented. You can only access the source texts for translation by calling up the various segments in the short text editor. This setting enables you to specify the number of source text lines as of which segmentation starts for an object. You can also define the size of the segments.
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Segment Size (50-500)
The value you enter in this field determines the size of each segment, and the total number of source texts as of which an object is segmented. If you leave the standard value 500 unchanged, all objects containing more than five times this number of lines (that is, all objects containing 2501 lines or more) are split into segments, each of which contains 500 lines. The minimum value is 50, because segmentation does not take place for objects containing fewer than 251 source text lines. If you enter a lower value and try to save your settings, the system displays a warning. To protect system performance, the maximum segment size is 500 lines.
ExampleWhen large objects are segmented in the short text editor, you want each segment to consist of 500 source text lines. You leave the standard value 500 unchanged in the Segment Size (50-500) field. As soon as an object contains more than 2500 source text lines, it is segmented. A table that contains 3000 source text lines is divided into 6 segments, each of which contains 500 source text lines. An object containing 2490 source text lines, however, is called up without segmentation because it does not exceed the segmentation threshold of 2500 source text lines.
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Display Modified Lines in Segments
This checkbox is selected by default.
If you deselect this checkbox and then call up segmented objects for translation, the dialog box in which the individual segments are listed only indicates the number of new lines per segment.
The Language Selection fields in the Display Current Text in All Languages: Restriction group box are blank in the standard setting. If you enter languages in some or all of these fields, the Display Current Text in All Languages function in the short text editor is restricted to these languages. For more information, see Displaying Other Target Languages.