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Subject:Re: How do you handle revisions for translation? From:"Sharon Burton-Hardin" <sharonburton -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:"Krista Van Laan" <KVanlaan -at- verisign -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:16:17 -0800
When I needed to do this - and I tell my writers to do this now - Keep an
Excel spreadsheet or a table that has 3 columns marked Page, Was, Is or
something like that. Then when they make a change, they mark in the table
the page of the change, paste the text before the change and paste the new
text.
Once a week, the table is sent to the localization company, along with the
new files. Everyone seems very happy with this arrangement.
sharon
Sharon Burton-Hardin
President of the Inland Empire chapter of the STC
www.iestc.org
Anthrobytes Consulting
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----- Original Message -----
From: Krista Van Laan <KVanlaan -at- verisign -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Tuesday, 11 January, 2000 2:05 PM
Subject: How do you handle revisions for translation?
| I've got a question for those of you who work with translators.
| What do you do when a document is revised and updated? Change bars
| don't seem to be an answer because we are still doing a lot of
| rewriting and updating as we develop the product. We do frequent
revisions,
| too.
|
| We keep track of changes by listing them, but this is very broad, so it
| might say something like "Updated installation procedure" rather than
| itemizing each change within the installation procedure.
|
| I'm thinking that the right way to handle this is to keep the list of
| changes, but make it more detailed. Before I make a decision about this,
| I'd appreciate some ideas from people who have done it. Up until now,
| I've been giving the translator the entire new document with the
| list of broad changes, but that isn't good enough.
|
| Krista
|
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| Krista Van Laan VeriSign, Inc.
| Documentation Manager 1350 Charleston Road
| kvanlaan -at- verisign -dot- com Mountain View, CA 94043
| tel: (650) 429-5158 fax: (650) 961-7300
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