Re: a question about translating

Le 30/01/2005 11:41, and res a écrit:

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> here i am (again :-S)
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> i've done the "OWL Overview" translation, but i used MSWord and i'm 
> sure that's not the standard format.
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> anyone uses/knows a specific tool for translating? i mean, is there a 
> tool for making the translation comments, editing the hyperlinks and 
> so on?
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> sorry for my almost-invented-Spanish2English, i assure you that my 
> English2Spanish is much better (anyone could reply that it couldn't be 
> much worst)
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Translation does involve a little knowledge (not much) in HTML.
You should not use MS Word, but a basic text editor (Notepad for 
instance) or a dedicated HTML editor to translate the SOURCE of the HTML 
document. Using MS Word may cause modifications in the HTML structure of 
the document, which IS NOT what translating is about.

If you're not trained in HTML, open the HTML document in your editor and 
translate only what is BETWEEN tags but NOT what is WITHIN tags (except 
title= and alt=). To make myself clear, here is an example :

<p name="example">This is an <a href="http://www.example.edu" title="Example">example</a> of what you can find in the source of the document.</p>

Such sentence, for instance, should be translated as (I'll use French 
cause I don't speak Spanish but I've upper-cased what I have translated 
so you can see) :

<p name="example">CECI EST UN <a href="http://www.example.edu" title="EXEMPLE">EXEMPLE</a> DE CE QUE TU PEUX TROUVER DANS LA SOURCE DU DOCUMENT.</p>

You'll notice that I have not translated what is in the <p> tag or in 
the <a> tag, except what is stated as "title" because it may be 
displayed to the reader and thus needs to be translated. The same goes 
with "alt" attribute.

So to make it short :

    * Translate everything between tags :

<tag>TO BE TRANSLATED</tag>

    * Do not translate what is within tags :

<p name="not_to_be_translated">TO BE TRANSLATED</p>

    * Translate "title" and "alt" attributes :

<p name"not_to_be_translated" title="PARRAFO 1">TO BE TRANSLATED : <img alt="TO BE TRANSLATED"></p>

Do not hesitate to ask questions about this. All comments and 
corrections about my comments are welcome.

Patrick