[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]
Subject: Translating DocBook XML documents to other languages
I was browsing the web and found archives of the list where a similar question was asked. There are a number of non-free and sometimes expensive (most of the times not multiplatform) tools that support DocBook XML. Free and multiplatform software that supports DocBook XML are few and I personally only use 2 of them: both java apps that run flawlessly on a Mac and with both strong and week points. The applications are: OmegaT (for which I do a lot of user support, and the reason I am here is that I am rewriting the manual in DocBook) which is more documentation translation oriented: it is aimed at freelance translators and is very simple to use. OmegaT supports a number of standard documentation files that it parses automatically to search for translatable segments. http://sourceforge.net/projects/omegat/ OpenLanguageTools, recently "freed" by SUN where it was their internal localization front end. The back end has et to be opened. OLT uses a anything2xliff kind of drag and drop filter and thus is more a XLIFF file editor. The absence of back end makes the conversion process unnecessarily cumbersome and sometimes very long for big files sets, and the main advantage of using XLIFF (adding internal matching information) is not made into use because of that. https://open-language-tools.dev.java.net/ Both tools support the use of external references memories in the TMX format. Jean-Christophe Helary
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]