[FM Discuss] translation workflow

[Walter Bender]

With a manual with lots of figures, such as the Sugar Manual, we need
a workflow for identifying which figures need updating.

-walter

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:41 PM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> hi,
>
> We are working on the Digital Foundations translation sprint (at
> eyebeam, nyc). Its a mini-sprint (1 day) to get a start on translation
> to spanish but we also have some people working on .de and .pt and
> someone coming in this afternoon to look at Hebrew. We wont get it all
> done but we will get a good start.
>
> i thought i would make a few notes here for other translation
> teams/projects.
>
> So...we have found that babelfish does an alright translation of the
> chapters. Hence our workflow is like this :
> 1. copy the URL of the chapter in READ (npot write) into babelfish
> (doing it this way means you get images in the final output whereas
> other workflows drop the images and just leave confusing text
> references)
> 2. copy the translated output (not the view source, just the copy and
> paste direct from the browser) into babelfish
> 3. mark the status as 'machine translated' (a new status we created
> today)
> 4. translators come through and look at the side-by-side view and tweak
> 5. later someone comes thru and translates the screenshots
>
> this seems to work well. google translation does a better job but when
> you copy and paste the translation it has all the english sentences next
> to the translated sentences (they are normally hidden in span tags but
> come visible when you copy and paste) so we use babelfish which doesnt
> have this problem
>
> adam
>
>
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Walter Bender
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