I work comfortably and the customer is happy - a win-win situation. With Word, instead, since I hate using it, I try as much as possible to write the translation in a simple and flexible text editor (BBEdit, TextWrangler, TextEdit) and then paste it into a new Word document. It’s a waste of time, and moreover it’s important that the translated text respect the layout of the original document, without exceeding the limits imposed by the various text frames. In the case of InDesign and Quark XPress assignments, copying the text to be translated into another editor, to then translate it and paste the translation back in the InDesign or XPress file, doesn’t make much sense. This applies to Word documents, in most cases, but also to InDesign or (rarely) Quark XPress projects. Otherwise it means writing articles/essays on my blogs, or carrying on with some literary, creative project.Īs regards to managing documents sent by other people, the easiest way is to have a tool that can properly display the document in its original format and, as it often happens, that can create a file with the formatting required by the client. Writing content – work-wise this means the translation of the original text, which can be in a file or directly on the Web (if I have to prepare a version of a website in a different language).Managing documents created by other people and sent to me for translation.My work has to do with text in two phases:
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After much obsessing about how to employ the tools I use to work and to write creatively in the most effective way, I concluded that simplification was the way to go.
There’s been a gradual but inexorable change in my writing habits with the computer. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Word Processors and Love Synchronisation
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