Translation Instructions

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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.

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).

Creating a Translation Project

5) Create a new Project. Select the target language and change the source directory to where a XaML file is located.

Please let me know if there are any problems.