Weekend work!
Mar. 11th, 2011 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe good news about that updated file (make that updated files, as there were two of 'em) is that the extent of the updates was fairly modest. Indeed, some of the updates corrected typos that I had already taken account of and corrected (with a corresponding comment) in my translation, requiring me to simply remove the comment!
What really took a lot of time was making sure I had caught all of any changes that may have occurred in a couple of hefty tables, since Word's idea of finding deltas in tables is fairly squirrely, ranging from some simply horrendous reformatting to the less sophisticated "mark the old table as deleted and the new table as inserted " technique. I estimate that, between all of the hullaballoo associated with slipstreaming the updates, I probably spent 4 billable hours.
Still, when it rains, it pours, so I'm on the hook for another 8,000 source word job (about half of which are in pretranslated segments), due Monday. So it looks like I'm going to have to be extra industrious if I want to get that done alongside a general cleanup of the house in preparation for Galina's return from Texas (presumably) late tomorrow.
Cheers...
What really took a lot of time was making sure I had caught all of any changes that may have occurred in a couple of hefty tables, since Word's idea of finding deltas in tables is fairly squirrely, ranging from some simply horrendous reformatting to the less sophisticated "mark the old table as deleted and the new table as inserted " technique. I estimate that, between all of the hullaballoo associated with slipstreaming the updates, I probably spent 4 billable hours.
Still, when it rains, it pours, so I'm on the hook for another 8,000 source word job (about half of which are in pretranslated segments), due Monday. So it looks like I'm going to have to be extra industrious if I want to get that done alongside a general cleanup of the house in preparation for Galina's return from Texas (presumably) late tomorrow.
Cheers...
