Re: [libreoffice-users] Translating odf files using omegat

On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, Milos Sramek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to translate the book Getting Started with LO 4.0 to 
> Slovak. Translating directly the odt file is perhaps not a good idea, so 
> I would like to use a tool with translation memory - I tried OmegaT. 
> There is, however, a problem with tags:

I do not know this program though I took a quick look at the manual; I 
wondered what happens if you copy and paste your text into it or if 
you save your file as a text file and load it up into the program? 
maybe you already tried all of this.

F.

> For example, the sentence
>
> *Quickstarter is installed in the Windows system tray and is 
> automatically loaded during system startup.*
>
> is displayed in the document without any formatting, using just the the 
> Default character style
>
> In OmegaT, however, it is displayed like this:
>
> *<f10>Quickstarter is installed in </f10><f11>the Windows system tray 
> </f11><f12>and is automatically loaded </f12><f13>during system startup.**
> **</f13>*/
> /(<fxx> are tag replacements and should not be touched/.)
> /
> This suggests that there are some tags inside this sentence, in spite 
> the fact that I do not see any. Really, in the content.xml file inside 
> the document we can see them:
>
> *<text:span text:style-name="T65">Quickstarter is installed in 
> </text:span><text:span text:style-name="T21">the Windows system tray 
> </text:span><text:span text:style-name="T65">and is automatically loaded 
> </text:span><text:span text:style-name="T21">during system startup. 
> </text:span>*/
> /
> These tags in fact do not mean anything meaningfull:
>
> *<style:style style:name="T21" 
> style:family="text"><style:text-properties fo:language="en" 
> fo:country="GB"/></style:style>*
>
> Since there are several such tags for nearly each sentence, translating 
> using OmegaT is not possible. I've checked if removing them manually 
> from the content.xml filed changes anything - no, the document remains 
> the same.
> So, there is a way how to use OmegaT: one has to clean up the xml code 
> by removing all these useless tags. Does anybody have an idea, how to do 
> that? Do you happen to know such tool?
>
> Thanks
> Milos

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