On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:58 -0400, Mark Johnson wrote:
Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> Now as we focus on the translation problems, er,
> opportunities, I'd like a definitive answer about this.
>
> Which of the following formatting paragraph styles does the translation team
> find more friendly:
>
> When in anger or in doubt, run in
> circles, scream and shout. The
> quick brown fox jumped over the
> lazy dog.
>
> or:
>
> When in anger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
> The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
>
> Specificly, should each sentence from the source document be:
>
> 1) lines justified all together into the semblance
> of a paragraph; or
> 2) a separate line, no matter how long it gets.
Hopefully, the new XML diff tools won't care which style is used. But I
guess we need to hear from translation to get the definitive answer on
this. FWIW, glad you raised this issue, T.
"Only your translator knows for sure..."
Right... xmlformat doesn't care about preserving any presentation other
than inside CDATA type containers. *Unless* we decide to go the other
way and use "foo-doc-XX.xml" for each language, in which case we can
restrict tidy-bowl to just particular languages. AFAIK, xmlformat will
not be able to respect parallel structures based on the "lang"
attribute.
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