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Re: Emacs as a translator's tool
From: |
Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs as a translator's tool |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:46:42 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 28.0.50 |
On 2021-12-21, at 18:41, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> At first, personally, I would have started from a large number of
>> existing features that I could have reused.
>>
>> For the design, I would rather point towards XLIFF 2 [2], precisely
>> because fundamental ideas have already been formulated and implemented.
>
> Part of the problem is that "translation" ends up meaning very different
> things in different contexts. I mostly translate fiction or other long
> chunks of prose, but occasionally film scripts and subtitles. The
Out of curiosity: what tools do you use? (I translate subtitles a lot,
and I used subed-mode and mpv.)
> requirements there are very different (and much more fluid) than
> something like XLIFF, which seems firmly aimed at localization. I can't
> imagine a major-mode that would be practically useful for both
> localization and fiction translation.
Agreed. Actually, a global minor mode might be a better fit. It could
support e.g. linking between two buffers ("source" and "translation")
and glossary support.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, (continued)
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Eric Abrahamsen, 2021/12/20
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Kevin Vigouroux, 2021/12/21
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2021/12/21
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Eric Abrahamsen, 2021/12/21
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Kevin Vigouroux, 2021/12/21
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2021/12/21
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Kevin Vigouroux, 2021/12/22
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2021/12/22
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2021/12/21
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Kevin Vigouroux, 2021/12/22
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool,
Marcin Borkowski <=
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Eric Abrahamsen, 2021/12/22
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2021/12/22
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Eric Abrahamsen, 2021/12/22
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2021/12/22
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2021/12/22
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Eric Abrahamsen, 2021/12/22
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Marcin Borkowski, 2021/12/23
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2021/12/23
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Marcin Borkowski, 2021/12/28
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2021/12/22