Spacing in French

Subject: Spacing in French
From: "Tom Johnson" <tjohnson -at- freeway -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:31:26 -0500


Hi Lisa,

I think part of the problem stems from our familiarity with hyphenated
documents. Translation companies often will not use hyphenation
because it is hard to control where the breaks will occur. As your
probably aware, translation companies frequently farm out the grunt
work to independent translators who use whatever software they have
available (Word, Wordperfect). Translators don't give a rip about
layout, they just translate. The translation companies import those
files into the DTP program and format them according to your template.
The layout people don't necessarily have any idea of the target
language, much less where hyphenation should occur.

I guess I'm saying you don't have much choice in the matter other than
to hire an independent translator who could come in and tweak the
hyphenation.

If you think French has long words, how about Germanmanualtranzlachun.

Tom Johnson


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Bronson
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Subject: Spacing in French



I'm surprised by the extremely ragged right edges that are resulting,
because many of the French words are so long.


Thanks,
Lisa B.


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Tom Johnson
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