Re: Emacs as a translator's tool

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:
>
>>>     it expects three (at least) top-level Org headings, representing the
>>> source text, translated text, and glossary. So you'd move your existing
>>> translation under a new top-level heading, put the original source text
>>> under a new top-level heading, and add a third top-level heading for the
>>> glossary.
> Ok, checked!
>  
>>> If you're doing a book, I would then set `ogt-segmentation-strategy' to
>>> the symbol 'paragraph. Then turn on the minor mode, which should segment
>>> the source text. I've updated the library to also segment the
>>> translation text, which will be important to you since you've already
>>> done so much of it.
> I have done it, and it did the segmenting for the source seemingly
> pretty well, but it didn't really understand the translation, maybe
> it is confused because I used org headings for the chapters and pages,
> so the translation does not correspond 1:1 to the source?

That could be, segmentation isn't super smart.

> For today I don't have more time, I'll see tomorrow if I can remove
> headings and see if it works better.

Rather than do that, I'd play with deleting/adding segmentation
characters. Like I said it's not smart, and once it's done the
segmentation it won't touch it again, so you could just take out "extra"
segmentation characters so the headings don't look like separate segments.

>>> I'm sort of surprised that segmentation didn't error out before -- if
>>> the code can't find a source tree, it should indicate an error.
> It didn't error; it just said 0% done :-).
>
> Thanks for the help, I was able to move around as you described and it
> worked moslty as you advertise, seems like. If I did it from the start I
> guess the tool would work much better for me :-).

Probably! I haven't tried turning it on halfway through. That wasn't
going to be a priority, but if you're the one testing it, those are the
bugs I'll fix :)