Run only what changed

Transept keeps track of which blocks have changed since they were last translated. Two run surfaces put that to use: the batch dialog (Translate, Regenerate, Smart Proofread, and Translate + Proofread) and the workflow run dialog. In both, Only updated content sits just under the scope picker. It’s off by default — leave it off to run on everything, the way you always have.

A block is marked updated when its source changes — because you edited the original text by hand, or because you re-imported the document and that block’s source came in different (the same mechanism that drives string-table updates over the API). A block that has never been translated into the current target language also counts as work to do.

Translate and Regenerate limit the run to blocks whose source changed since their translation, plus any not yet translated — and the cost estimate drops to match, since you’re billed for a handful of blocks instead of the whole file.

Smart Proofread (and a workflow’s review step) reads the pages that changed — a proofread needs the surrounding text to judge consistency, so it covers a whole page, but only the pages you actually edited, not the whole document — and points you at the changed blocks on them so your attention goes where the edits were.

Workflows branch per step: translate and rewrite steps skip unchanged blocks, while review steps cover the pages that changed. The toggle also works with the all-languages fan-out, so a single source fix can be pushed across every language version in one run.