Creating Bilingual Data with SheepGroom

Bilingual alignment in SheepGroom involves two simple stages:

1. File Selection & Text Extraction
2. Interactive Manual Adjustment

Because SheepGroom automatically pairs structural blocks upon extraction (such as sheets in Excel or slides and notes in PowerPoint), step 2 can often be simplified or skipped for high-level reviews or LLM batch checks.

1. File Selection & Text Extraction

Begin by choosing the corresponding source and target files:

1. Select source and target files in corresponding pairs. Click "Add Pair Row" to process multiple document pairs simultaneously.
2. Click [Expand to Alignment Editor].
3. The interactive alignment editor will open.

Batch Loading

Prepare an Excel, CSV, or TSV file listing source files in Column A and target files in Column B to load multiple files at once via [Batch Load Files]. You can also resume work via [Load File/Text].

2. Interactive Manual Adjustment

Once expanded, the editor presents content organized into logical blocks:

Source File	Block Unit	Special Notation
Word	Paragraphs / Tables / Text Boxes	None
Excel	Sheets / Text Boxes	None
PowerPoint	Slides / Notes	{|} Soft break within the same text box

Within each block, corresponding lines in the source and target editors represent aligned pairs. Simply insert or remove line breaks with Enter / Backspace to adjust sentence alignment.

Toolbar Features

Header Toolbar (File Level)

Button	Description
File Selection	Return to file selection screen (session state preserved).
Add Load	Append additional document pairs to the session.
Save	Export aligned data in TSV or Excel format.
Active File	Switch between loaded files.
Add Block	Insert an empty block below the current cursor position.
Align All	Automatically balance line counts across blocks with empty lines.
{|} Replace	Convert soft text frame breaks into standard line breaks.
Search	Filter blocks by keyword search.

Block Controls

Button	Description
Merge Down	Merge current block with the subsequent block for both source and target.
Trash	Delete the block and its contents.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Function
Tab	Toggle focus between source and target editor panes.
Ctrl+↑ / ↓	Navigate to previous / next block.
Ctrl+Shift+Enter	Split current block at cursor position.