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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] OT: How to translate DocBook documents into differentlanguages
Hello Markus, thank you for your quick response! Markus Schütz wrote: > The good news is that there are tools to accomplish your task, the bad > news is that they are not open source, but commercial software. > The following ones have been proved to do the job well: > - Trados Tag Editor by Trados (www.trados.com), > - Transit by Star Transit (www.star-transit.com), Unfortunately, I was not able to find any evaluation version of Trados/Transit for download. > - XLIFF Editor by Heartsome (www.heartsome.net) - which is the only > Java-based and therefore platform-independent tool. Thank you for this link. I've tried an evaluation version ("xlfedit-lite"). I was playing around with it for some hours. Unfortunately, I can't find any tutorial on that program, so to a big extent, I had to guess how to use this program. There is a manual, but it is surely not written for absolute beginners like me. It seems that this program might be very useful for me, although there are some points I'm worried about: 1) I use external entities like this <book><title>My First Book</title> &chap1; &chap2; &chap3; &appa; &appb; </book> but XLIFF creates one big document from that. Ok, I could fix this by hand afterwards. 2) The editor expands all internal entity references. I do not know how to switch off this behaviour. 3) The editor treats some DocBook inline elements like <author> obviously as block elements. I do not know how to tell it the difference. Again, the manual is not very clear here. Frankly speaking, I do not understand the handling of inline markup in the editor, nor its interaction with the underlying DTD. 4) The program sometimes crashes. :-) Altogether, it seems that I'm just missing a good introductory text on how to use this program for producing a translation of a larger work. Still another question: I need a good way to produce a pure txt-version of my DocBook document which can then be fed into a translation program. Is there an easy way to do this? (OK, I could do some XSLT programming, but maybe someone has already come up with a solution.) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim Ziegler Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85 Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany Email: ziegler@mpi-sb.mpg.de Tel.: (+49) 0681 9325-127
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