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What stays in place

Tolayda translates block by block. Headings, paragraphs, figure captions, and table cells keep their place in the English.

A dissertation already has a shape. Chapters, headings, a table on page forty, a caption under a figure. A translation that returns one long run of text has lost something, even if every sentence is right.

Tolayda works block by block. A heading stays a heading. A paragraph stays a paragraph. A figure caption stays under its figure. A table cell stays in its cell. The English sits on the other side of the same page, and the two sides scroll together.

That shape is what makes checking possible. An author can find the paragraph they wrote, read the English beside it, and decide whether it says the same thing. A passage can be translated on its own, or the rest of the paper can run when the author is ready.

When a section needs another try, Retranslate in that section's menu runs it again. Retranslate in the header runs every section the author has not edited, after asking first. Edited sections are kept. Report an issue sends a passage to Tolayda for review. When the same paragraph is uploaded again, unchanged, Tolayda reuses the earlier English, so a sentence the author has already checked does not drift.

The file keeps its identity too. The paper starts as a Word file, and that file remains the source. It keeps its own name. A folder in Tolayda is only a label on the desk.

The three steps a paper goes through are on the Why Tolayda page: upload, read, then decide.