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Subject:Re: Multilingual documentation From:Krista van Laan <vanlaan -at- BILBO -dot- NTC -dot- NOKIA -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 8 Apr 1997 15:38:33 +0300
I agree with what John Cornellier wrote about translation. Definitely
hire a company rather than having a translator on contract, and be
extremely careful not to make changes afterwards.
One point I'd like to add is that when I handled translation at
my previous company, I found tranlsation companies that had the same
software I was using (Interleaf).
I gave them files, and they produced a final document
with the same graphics in the same places. They also changed the
callouts in the illustrations to the new languages, which had been
a concern for me. I didn't have to do any work at all.
It was also a relief to have a company take
responsibility for working in languages I didn't understand.
And you don't even have to work with tranlators nearby. From Finland,
I dealt with one company in the USA and another in Belgium.
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