Julen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Mathias Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Julen, >> >> >> Julen wrote: >> >> > TMX is just a format for exchanging purposes and it can be a source to >> > feed a TM data-base. It's like exporting our document to another >> > format (but something more ;). So, don't confuse TMX (a specific >> > format) with TM (a general approach). >> > Although TMX format can store customized properties for a translation >> > unit, the format itself doesn't include structural information about a >> > document, e.g. odt. It's just plain text, translation units ready to >> > be used. For more information about this format you can see the >> > specification online[1] >> >> Hm, it seems that we should clarify what the purpose of the extension >> should be: >> >> (1) providing an interface to translate odt files >> (2) using OOo as a translation tool based on tmx files >> >> First I assumed it was the first, now to me it sounds as if you are >> targetting the latter. For the first use case we surely would need to >> maintain structural information by matching translated and original >> content inside of the extension. For the latter of course that wouldn't >> be necessary and tmx defines the model of the extension. >> >> Can you give me a hint which of the two use cases it the one you want to >> support? > > You're right, I want to support the second use case. > Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Thanks for clarification. After giving this some thinking I would like to find out how that could basically work. OOo would need a TMX->Text filter for import and export. The filter would use the Text API of OOo so that it basically could be imported into any OOo application. The structure of the text seems to be simple enough so that no special Writer features are required. The extension should create a UI with two windows containing the original and the translated text. If I see what e.e. OmegaT offers, I assume that we should also plan to add some more fancy features that can be added incrementally. Is that correct? Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
