Folks,
While you can press a button in most web browsers to translate English
pages on the fly, due to the many musical and LilyPond-specific
technical terms there are inevitably flaws, that make the results
misleading. Such online translations also don't give you translated
PDF manuals.
I thus wonder whether a guy with LLM experience could help with
updating the German translation of the Notation Reference – or rather,
generating a complete translation from scratch, since the German
translation is severely outdated. Today, websites like Google
Translate provide translations (both German-to-English and
English-to-German) that are nearly perfect even for quite complicated
grammatical structures, which still amazes me.
This is intended as an experiment that could start with a few
chapters, say, to find out whether such an approach is feasible. Of
course, we would have to discuss the conditions for the LLM to get a
good result. In spite of the grammatical quality I expect that a lot
of technical terms will be mistranslated; we thus have to proofread
the results (I volunteer for that).
What do you think?
Werner
