Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Translating ODF files on Pootle

Hi Rimas,

We have been looking into this for a while. We tried to use it to 
translate some text books.

We were considering integrating it Odf2Xliff in WordForge, but in the 
toolkit it has old (2009) known bugs that have not been solved. We need 
to find another solution.

We have looked into it, same as other filters that are not 100% correct, 
but in this case it is not easy to solve, given the way ODF files are 
built. You might have an in-line tag that is a reference to an internal 
tag of the document, that finally might come out to be just marking text 
as "bold", but you have to do a recursive analysis to get there.. not 
obvious... and then you have to build it back when returning to the 
original translated text.

Cheers,

Javier

Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2010.12.27 10:37, Javier Sola rašė:
> > The ODF2XLIFF filters in both translate toolkit and WordForge are 
> > broken. They ignore some strings from the source (they do not go into 
> > the XLIFF files) in which there is mark-up. They can be used only for 
> > plain text without any markup, and even them segmentation is not very 
> > good. There are also other problems with them. I-tools does not have 
> > enough working tools either.
>
> Are you sure? There were plenty of placeholders in the file exported 
> by Sophie. To me, it looks like most of the problem is actually in 
> Pootle itself, because it simply ignores XML tags in the translatable 
> string.
>
>
> By the way, I haven't really seen the original document before 
> conversion, but I wonder how odf2xliff actually split the file into 
> strings. In my opinion, splitting by anything less than a paragraph 
> (or maybe even a chapter) reduces flexibility and may be undesired, 
> no? IMO, localization of documentation and help, unlike that of UI, is 
> a bit more creative task, and to better convey the idea, it may 
> sometimes be desirable to shuffle sentences, and perhaps even entire 
> paragraphs, around. Could anyone comment on that?
>
> Rimas


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