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- | ======Text in other languages====== | + | ======Text in Other Languages====== |
Whenever there is text in another language it’s very important to properly identify the language of the text. This ensures that screen readers, braille displays, and other assistive technologies can render the content accurately and read the content according to the pronunciation rules for that language. When no other language has been specified for a phrase or passage of text, its human language is the default human language of the book. | Whenever there is text in another language it’s very important to properly identify the language of the text. This ensures that screen readers, braille displays, and other assistive technologies can render the content accurately and read the content according to the pronunciation rules for that language. When no other language has been specified for a phrase or passage of text, its human language is the default human language of the book. | ||
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* Written Instructions for Mac: [[https:// | * Written Instructions for Mac: [[https:// | ||
- | =====Marking up Languages===== | + | =====How to Work with Languages |
+ | The following is a list of the different ways to mark up and approach languages in your workflow. | ||
- | To mark up secondary | + | * [[.language:marking_up_languages|Marking Up Languages]]: |
- | * Select | + | * [[.language: |
- | * Go to '' | + | * [[.language: |
- | * This will open a pop up menu | + | * [[.language: |
- | * Select | + | * [[.language: |
- | * Apply '' | + | |
- | When passing the ticket to the Production Coordinator, | + | < |
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- | If you are working with a Windows computer, you may have to install the editing languages in order to apply them to the text. The following link will take you to a website that breaks down how to do this: [[https:// | + | |
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- | =====For entire documents written in another language===== | + | |
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- | If the entire book is written in another language, we will need to change the language of the document so that it is not English. | + | |
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- | To change the document language on a Mac, you can follow these steps: | + | |
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- | On a PC, Word should automatically detect the language of the document: | + | |
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- | =====Indigenous Languages===== | + | |
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- | Currently, there is no language mark up to Indigenous Languages in Microsoft Word. To remediate this we mark up all Indigenous words in strong style. This includes proper names and places. | + | |
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- | This section will explain how to set up the Indigenous Languages in Word to help the Production Coordinator add the span tags during conversion. | + | |
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- | There are two steps for marking Indigenous Languages: | + | |
- | - Apply Strong style to the words and phrases. | + | |
- | - Insert a Producer' | + | |
- | - Leave a comment in the RT ticket indicating what Indigenous Languages are in the book. | + | |
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- | <WRAP center round box 80%> | + | |
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- | **Example of Indigenous Language Producer' | + | |
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- | Producer’s Note (heading 1) | + | |
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- | This book uses words and phrases written in [insert language name]. Text-to-speech software will not be able to pronounce the Indigenous-language words correctly in this Word version. (normal style) | + | |
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- | French Translation: | + | |
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- | Note de rédacteur | + | |
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- | Ce livre comporte des mots et des phrases en [insert language name]. | + | |
- | Les synthèses vocales ne seront pas en mesure de prononcer correctement les mots en langue autochtone dans cette version en format Word. | + | |
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- | =====Working with Images of Words and Different Alphabets===== | + | |
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- | Sometimes a word or phrase will appear as an image in line with the sentence instead of typed text. This is a issue from the publisher. Words or phrases should not be formatted as images, but sometimes publishers do not follow these guidelines. When this happens you will need to transcribe the image of the term of phrase, and then apply the language style. Be sure to delete the images once you are done adding the text version. | + | |
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- | Sometimes the terms or phrases are typed out in line with the rest of the text, but with a language that uses a different alphabet. In this case, if the text appears as typed text, and not an image, then you can simply apply a language style to it as usual. | + | |
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- | In case you're not sure how to type in different languages, this is how you do it on a Mac [[https:// | + | |
- | In other cases you can use '' | ||
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A: Looks like this is the Inuktitut language, according to the publication information. Inuktitut can be represented by [[https:// | A: Looks like this is the Inuktitut language, according to the publication information. Inuktitut can be represented by [[https:// | ||
We will need to translate the images into Unicode. | We will need to translate the images into Unicode. | ||
- | If you're using Mac, enable your " | + | If you're using Mac, enable your " |
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+ | Q: alfabet / alphabet features several words in Friesian, which is not included in the list of languages available in Microsoft Word. Should I format these as I would Indigenous words and leave a comment accordingly? | ||
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+ | A: Great question! Yes, you can treat it similarly to Indigenous languages on Turtle Island. | ||
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+ | Q: I'm working on Pilleurs de rêves, a French language book. It has a couple repeated references to Indigenous languages. One is the name of the people: anishinaabeg. Another is a single word said multiple times: nishin. I'll keep my eye out for more. In the meantime, I'm happy to add the strong style to these words, but I'm wondering if it would be possible to get a French translation of the producer' | ||
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+ | A: Yes, you need to **always** bold all Indigenous words. I will get that translation and let you know when the wiki has been updated. | ||
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+ | Q: Another A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure question: I know that we don't mark up words that have been incorporated into English, but I've noticed in this text that the author does not use the anglicized " | ||
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+ | A: You can treat it the same way as the other Vietnamese words as below. | ||
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+ | Q: I'm working on A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, which works in words in Vietnamese, and I noticed that Vietnamese isn't one of the default language packs. I found the guide in the Wiki for adding languages in Windows -- is there a similar go-to tutorial for Mac users? | ||
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+ | A: It seems like you can not add Vietnamese to Word on Mac. I submitted a new question to the community message board, and will let you know if I hear anything. For now, just bold all the words, add a note to RT when you pass it to me that there are Vietnamese words in the document, and I will manually put in the span tags when I convert it to EPUB3. | ||
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+ | Q: Working on Late to the House of Words by Sharon Dolin. Because it is a Spanish-English parallel text, is it correct that I apply language on each Spanish part entirely? | ||
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+ | A: Yes, you want to apply Spanish to the full phrases. Remember in the future to include an example in your question. | ||
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+ | Q: Another question about Late to the House of Words by Sharon Dolin. There are some italicised words on both the Spanish and English text. Strong style is already applied to the Spanish pieces. Is clearing the format of the particular words and applying emphasis style the correct treatment to the italicised words in Spanish? E.g. Under [No conec cap espai], No conec cap espai que respongui al nom de //casa//. | ||
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+ | A: Yes, we follow the same rules for emphasis for other languages. | ||
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