[sword-devel] Portuguese translation - request for help

[Manfred Bergmann]

Hi Peter.

If you send me the PDF and/or the XML file I'll have a look though it.


Manfred

Am 18.05.2010 um 08:50 schrieb Peter von Kaehne:

> Dear all,
> 
> We have been granted permission for a Portuguese modern translation. The
> reason that it is not in the repos is entirely my fault as I am
> currently extremely slow in all CrossWire work.
> 
> The problem with the text is as follows:
> 
> I have two texts to work with:
> 
> a) a totally unstyled and rather horrendous MS Word 95 document
> b) a reasonably clean and highly styled PDF.
> 
> Former I have given up upon. It is simply not possible with any
> contortions to make it work.
> 
> Latter is much better. It is the produce of a publishing house who have
> gone through (a), styled it properly and produced the PDF in final
> outcome. The intermediate step - which would likely be the best text to
> work with is not available.
> 
> So I have taken the PDF and run it through pdf2xml and got something I
> think I can work with.
> 
> The xml documents are structured with pages as the main structural
> element, which in turn are the only way of relating reliably the (ample)
> foot notes) to chunks of text.
> 
> If I would filter the footnotes out, I would probably have a decent text
> fairly fast. But that would be a waste
> 
> So, are there any more experienced volunteers who could help me?
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
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