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Organizing two language versions within one document
There should be a way to keep two versions in one word document. The main
rule would be only use paragraphs pair wise. For every headline style a pair, for all body text a pair. For the output language A you get a macro to make language B as hidden text and for the other language the other way around. My question is, if there already is some kind of VBA application to handle that kind of task? Michael Müller |
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Don't be absurd. Use two documents, the way intelligent people do it.
"Michael Müller" wrote in message ... There should be a way to keep two versions in one word document. The main rule would be only use paragraphs pair wise. For every headline style a pair, for all body text a pair. For the output language A you get a macro to make language B as hidden text and for the other language the other way around. My question is, if there already is some kind of VBA application to handle that kind of task? Michael Müller |
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Hello Michael
Michael Müller wrote: There should be a way to keep two versions in one word document. The main rule would be only use paragraphs pair wise. For every headline style a pair, for all body text a pair. For the output language A you get a macro to make language B as hidden text and for the other language the other way around. What kind of benefits are you seeing in such a setup? Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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What kind of benefits are you seeing in such a setup? I think it makes no sense at a straight through translation, but when I work in the future on updating one editions I see the changes in the Word tracking mode in one paragraph and I think it would be very transparent to make the necessary changes right to next paragraph. Michael |
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On 1/10/05 1:01 PM, "Michael Müller" wrote:
What kind of benefits are you seeing in such a setup? I think it makes no sense at a straight through translation, but when I work in the future on updating one editions I see the changes in the Word tracking mode in one paragraph and I think it would be very transparent to make the necessary changes right to next paragraph. I should think that if you type the dual doc, in a linear fashion, then you should be able to use macros to do what you want. Wouldn't the macro PrintLanguageB just need to find text formatted as language A, format it as hidden, print, then undo the formatting? And vice versa? Find and Select Found material should also let you easily export each language to a new doc. This sounds quite doable in Word as is, unless I am missing something. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Hi Michael,
Another possibility would be two sets of styles (one for each language). Then create two templates in which one set is formatted as "hidden", and attach those templates as needed (Tools Templates and Add-Ins). Greetings, Klaus |
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Hi Michael
Michael Müller wrote: What kind of benefits are you seeing in such a setup? I think it makes no sense at a straight through translation, but when I work in the future on updating one editions I see the changes in the Word tracking mode in one paragraph and I think it would be very transparent to make the necessary changes right to next paragraph. OK, I see your line of thought. Interesting thread, in any case. I just don't like the idea of keeping everything in one Word document (the way Klaus describes with hidden text: effectively the content is n-fold with n languages), since DOC is sometimes fragile enough. I have vague ideas of using XML "text files" for the content and load them with Word, but I have never implemented a setup like that so far. Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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