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Mar. 6th, 2007 08:49 pmThe client for the current translation sent me a file and some kind of program to help with "suggested translations."
The setup doesn't work with Wordfast (I'm not too sure it'll work with Trados, either, but I'm not wasting time finding out), but deleting just the auxiliary program didn't help much.
(At least I think I deleted the auxiliary program, what droppings of it I could find.)
The idea of the add-on program is to allow you to double-click on pre-highlighted terms in the source text, which brings up a popup window with suggested translations. This is a nice idea in principle, but the execution, um, is somewhat lacking.
It turns out that the auxiliary program merely enables information previously embedded in the source file to be displayed in the popup. As mentioned before, this plays merry hell with Wordfast, but to add blunt trauma to injury, the suggested translations aren't exactly confidence-inspiring (e.g., "treaty provisions" is suggested for "положения договора" instead of the expected "contract provisions").
The information was embedded within MACROBUTTON fields in the text, which can be searched for (thank goodness) and deleted, and they have. Now I can get down to the gruesome work of translating roughly 20,000 words (and "editing" some 4,000 more embedded in TM segments) words by next Monday.
In other news, I've set up proust, my old VAIO, next to my work machine, to display the information in the marked up file (in case deleting the fields was a bad idea somewhere along the way), as well as that in a couple of huge reference files that were supplied by the client. Along the way, I tried to get proust connected to my local wireless network, but that required me to change the type of encryption used by my routers, because proust didn't support WPA-PSK using AES encryption (only TKIP).
Once that was accomplished, I was flummoxed by the fact that, despite having assigned addresses 192.168.55.xxx to my local network, proust was being assigned the IP address 192.168.1.102 by the router's DHCP server, which didn't help matters at all. In the end, it turned out that long ago, I had permanently assigned proust the 102 address in the router; once I deleted that specification, proust acquired a proper address.
* * * Forget Iraq, avian flu, or getting hit by a rock from outer space. The big news currently 'round these parts is the $370 million jackpot in the Mega Millions game. Wikipedia has an educational article on the subject, among which information is the chance of winning The Big One (1 in 175,711,536). With that probability, you actually have a positive mathematical expectation of winning money when you buy a ticket.
Of course, you're competing with players in eleven other states, too.
The Texas Lottery people have been running an ad recently, thanking the good citizens of the state for having dropped $9 billion into the coffers for education (supposedly) over some period of recent time. Whether that's what actually went into education or whether its the sum prior to what a certain Signor Ferrari called "handling charges" is not clear to me. The sum is, however, pretty impressive, though I wonder what it bought?
* * * I am currently 2500 words into my daily self-imposed quota of 4000 source words. I've been struggling with the text, but managed almost 700 words over a recent 50 minute stretch. At that rate, I could nail today's bag in two hours.
We'll see.
Cheers...
The setup doesn't work with Wordfast (I'm not too sure it'll work with Trados, either, but I'm not wasting time finding out), but deleting just the auxiliary program didn't help much.
(At least I think I deleted the auxiliary program, what droppings of it I could find.)
The idea of the add-on program is to allow you to double-click on pre-highlighted terms in the source text, which brings up a popup window with suggested translations. This is a nice idea in principle, but the execution, um, is somewhat lacking.
It turns out that the auxiliary program merely enables information previously embedded in the source file to be displayed in the popup. As mentioned before, this plays merry hell with Wordfast, but to add blunt trauma to injury, the suggested translations aren't exactly confidence-inspiring (e.g., "treaty provisions" is suggested for "положения договора" instead of the expected "contract provisions").
The information was embedded within MACROBUTTON fields in the text, which can be searched for (thank goodness) and deleted, and they have. Now I can get down to the gruesome work of translating roughly 20,000 words (and "editing" some 4,000 more embedded in TM segments) words by next Monday.
In other news, I've set up proust, my old VAIO, next to my work machine, to display the information in the marked up file (in case deleting the fields was a bad idea somewhere along the way), as well as that in a couple of huge reference files that were supplied by the client. Along the way, I tried to get proust connected to my local wireless network, but that required me to change the type of encryption used by my routers, because proust didn't support WPA-PSK using AES encryption (only TKIP).
Once that was accomplished, I was flummoxed by the fact that, despite having assigned addresses 192.168.55.xxx to my local network, proust was being assigned the IP address 192.168.1.102 by the router's DHCP server, which didn't help matters at all. In the end, it turned out that long ago, I had permanently assigned proust the 102 address in the router; once I deleted that specification, proust acquired a proper address.
Of course, you're competing with players in eleven other states, too.
The Texas Lottery people have been running an ad recently, thanking the good citizens of the state for having dropped $9 billion into the coffers for education (supposedly) over some period of recent time. Whether that's what actually went into education or whether its the sum prior to what a certain Signor Ferrari called "handling charges" is not clear to me. The sum is, however, pretty impressive, though I wonder what it bought?
We'll see.
Cheers...
