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Hi all,
I'm starting to generate documentation that later will also have to be trasnlated to other languages different than the original one so I'd like to have a master copy and then versions that would permit me to track changes, items pending to translate, .... I'd like to do it in a way that later could be easy to choose the formt to deliver it (richtext, pdf, html, xml, chm, ....) but basing all on the same source data so when I'd have to make a future change/update wouldn't it mean a complex task. Does it Word permits to work like this? Do you know/use any documentation tool or additional MSWord Plugin or there's no way for doing this in Word? Thanks in advance, Marc Soleda |
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Hello Marc
Marc wrote: I'm starting to generate documentation that later will also have to be trasnlated to other languages different than the original one so I'd like to have a master copy and then versions that would permit me to track changes, items pending to translate, .... I'd like to do it in a way that later could be easy to choose the formt to deliver it (richtext, pdf, html, xml, chm, ...) but basing all on the same source data so when I'd have to make a future change/update wouldn't it mean a complex task. Does it Word permits to work like this? Do you know/use any documentation tool or additional MSWord Plugin or there's no way for doing this in Word? the longer I think about this, the more I'm convinced that starting right away in Word won't get you there. To get this right, you probably want to separate content from formatting/layout as much as possible. That means you'll end up with a big database (or spreadsheet-like tool), listing all content broken down to paragraph level in your master language in one column, add one column per translated language. I'm afraid I don't know of any tool to support this process, but I'm pretty sure that stuff like this is "out there" somewhere. ..02¢ Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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Hi Robert,
yes, I think so and I've found 2 or 3 tools/ways that would permit the indepndization of the content and the presentation. One of them is using Latex and/or DocBook. Do you have experience in any of them? Marc "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: Hello Marc Marc wrote: I'm starting to generate documentation that later will also have to be trasnlated to other languages different than the original one so I'd like to have a master copy and then versions that would permit me to track changes, items pending to translate, .... I'd like to do it in a way that later could be easy to choose the formt to deliver it (richtext, pdf, html, xml, chm, ...) but basing all on the same source data so when I'd have to make a future change/update wouldn't it mean a complex task. Does it Word permits to work like this? Do you know/use any documentation tool or additional MSWord Plugin or there's no way for doing this in Word? the longer I think about this, the more I'm convinced that starting right away in Word won't get you there. To get this right, you probably want to separate content from formatting/layout as much as possible. That means you'll end up with a big database (or spreadsheet-like tool), listing all content broken down to paragraph level in your master language in one column, add one column per translated language. I'm afraid I don't know of any tool to support this process, but I'm pretty sure that stuff like this is "out there" somewhere. ..02¢ Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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Hello Marc
Marc wrote: yes, I think so and I've found 2 or 3 tools/ways that would permit the indepndization of the content and the presentation. One of them is using Latex and/or DocBook. Do you have experience in any of them? not really: I know conceptually what LaTeX is like. It ranges from (rather) crude text programming (as if you wrote HTML code in a raw text editor) to more sophisticated environments (more or less support of GUI tools). Handled right, you get better results in terms of typography than in any word processor, that's for sure! Expect some learning curve for LaTeX alone (and that's without separation :-)), but it might well be worth it. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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