On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 10:59:53 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 11:36:53 +0200, Sacha Menge wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> I'm searching for an editor that show me two files at the same time.
>> I want to translate some Docs for myself and cut and paste from one file
>> to another. For me it seems easier if I can see both files.
>> Is there something to do this?
Hi Sacha,
I am doing a lot of translating for our magazine from French, German or
English into Dutch.
At first I used two screens (Qedit is a good one) but nowadays I use
any editor...
So thuesday evening I had a long text in English compiled from ten
weekly bulletins. Some stuff is repeated every week and was deleted.
Then the translation began: the first paragraph of the English text was
positioned at the top of the screen.
Next the translation to Dutch was typed below the English paragraph.
After I was satisfied with the Dutch text, the English text was deleted.
Now you have the first paragraph in Dutch on top and the second
paragraph in English just below it. I scroll a bit to get the second
paragraph at the top of the screen. Now this is translated and as before
the English text is deleted => => next part, next part.
So I don't use any split screen system for this takes too much time.
There are a lot of things that must not be translated like names or
URL's; I copy them from the original English text mainly because typing
them again always gives mistakes.
I can use any editor that can handel blocks of text, to copy, to delete
and to replace within the text easyly and quickly!
The end-result should be in M$ Word because the printers do not handle
.TXT type files. But M$ Word is not suitable for this kind of
translating... after a lot of changes it breaks down and a whole evening
of work is lost.
My favorite is the good old 'WordStar'... but any good DOS editor which
can handle 'blocks' is fine. (E.g. Qedit)
I have translating expirience for over ten years and this is the way I
do it...
CU Bastiaan
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> There is a very nice split-screen editor that is available from MIX
> software. These are the people who make the Power C compiler for
> DOS. I have their editor and I used to use it. All of their stuff
> is commercial payware supplied with very nice printed manuals and
> all for a very low bargain price. See http://www.mixsoftware.com
> Also you could use the Qedit editor or the freeware PEDIT. With
> these editors you can read in a file to have it appended below
> another file you are editing. Then you can cut and paste stuff
> from the upper file to the lower file and vice-versa. You will
> have to do a lot of "page-ups" and "page-downs" to alternate your
> viewing of the two different files.
This is the reason I am no longer using any split screen aproach because
cut and paste from one file to another is very time consuming.
Bastiaan
>Using simple DOS commands you
> can easily append one file to another to create a new file for
> editing with whatever text editor you want to use. I don't know of
> any DOS editor that will display the two separate files in two
> separate windows so that you can cut and paste from one file to
> another as you would when using a Windows OS.
> One thing you can do in DOS is to load a file as a pop-up TSR.
> As you are creating a new file as a translation of another, you
> can press a hot-key to pop up your source document for viewing at
> any time. Then you simply press another key to return to your
> editor and the new file you are creating. There are various TSR
> utilities available as free downloads that you can use for
> implementing this technique. There are probably some people on
> this list who can recommend a particular TSR utility that is
> especially good for doing this. If I were to recommend the one
> I use, I am sure I will get flamed for it by someone else who will
> recommend something better.
> All the best,
> Sam Heywood
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