Translation Instructions

Introduction

We've started using OmegaT for translations.

Some cool benefits of this tool include:

  * you can stop and restart translation whenever you like
  * it will produce the final translated version.
  * there is a translation memory which will make future translation work faster.

Downloading the "Right" OmegaT

First off, we created a custom file filter for XaML files (LPI's XML formatted files used for item translation).

This means that you need to download our version from here.

The source code for this version of OmegaT can be downloaded here.

Changes to OmegaT

1) Added filter to handle XaML files

2) Disabled Google translation (for privacy reasons)

Installing OmegaT

Here are the steps to try it out:

1) Make certain you have a good version of Java. The OmegaT project seems to favour Sun's version. I compiled and tested all of this with Sun Java 6.

2) Grab the LPI version of OmegaT.

 And unzip the file somewhere.

3) Run OmegaT (in Linux) or OmegaT.bat (in Windows) from that unzipped directory.

4) Select Options->File Filters and hit 'Restore Defaults'. This should make XAML show up as a filter now (if it didn't show up already).

  This step is very important or OmegaT will not recognize and import the XaML files.

Creating a Translation Project

1) Definitely read the tutorial included in the GUI when you start OmegaT.

2) Create a new Project with File->New in the GUI.

  * The source language should be EN, EN-US or something similar
  *.Select the target language
  * Change the source directory to where a XaML file is located.

Please let me know if there are any problems.