Re: Document Customization

[Sarah Carroll <sarahc -at- INDIGO -dot- IE>]

Hi Trevor and Gary (was it Trevor or Gary speaking?),

The kinds of technology that you are looking for is referred to
as Translation Memory Technology or Computer Aided Technology.
There are many systems on the market, some better than others.
The most used systems are:
Translators Workbench for Windows - http://www.trados.com
Star Transit - http://www.star-gembh.de
IBM Translation Manager - I don't have the URL for these guys

Most of the big localisation agencies also have systems, the more active
ones would be:
ILE - http://www.ile.com ; AlpNet - http://www.alpnet.com ; and
ITP - http://www.itp.ie

Bear in mind that most of these systems are expensive, however they
are really worth investing in if you have many updates to incorporate.
Feel free to e-mail me if you have any queries,
Best regards,
Sarah C
sarahc -at- indigo -dot- ie

At 11:52 17/07/97 -0400, you wrote:
>The real killer of a problem is customization/localization. We send the
>docs out to country-level operations, who then localize the files. They in
>turn release the files to our customers who customize both the software
>and the documentation.
>
>The problem we face is in updating the documents - both the local
>operations and the customers have a file with their work applied to it,
>and don't want to lose that work and reapply it to the new version of the
>file.

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