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Re: Cross-language "same content on same page" issues

Subject: Re: Cross-language "same content on same page" issues
From: Anthony Davey <ant -at- ant-davey -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 09:09:21 +0100


Mats,

Although not manuals, I used to produce an internal magazine (admitedly only 16 pages) in six languages. (English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian)

A4 portrait format (A3 folded) and of course white space was wholly acceptable, along with the pictures used. Although my base figure was only 350 words per page, in English, I found that we could fit all the language versions on the page quite happily, without lots of blank space. The variation in total words/characters was not as large as some predicted and in the 'more compact' languages we made things look similar by increasing point size by 0.5 or 1 point and by increasing line spacing slightly.

I hope this helps, or at least provides some inspiration.

Best regards,
Ant

Broberg, Mats wrote:

Dear listmembers,

I'd be interested in hearing if someone on the list is subject to the
regime of keeping the same content in different language versions of a
manual on the same pages in the different manuals. I understand some
certification bodies demand this for certain types of publications.






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