Re: [dita-translation] FW: Best Practice for Using the DITA CONREFAttribute for Translation (coming)

[Andrzej Zydron <azydron@xml-intl.com>]

Hi JoAnn,

This is very interesting! It may be an idea to pass this on to the main 
DITA TC to highlight the importance of our input on this topic just in 
case its importance is being watered down.

I cannot remember if we have a meeting this coming Monday. I will be 
traveling then, so please accept my apologies if we have the meeting.

Best Regards,

AZ

JoAnn Hackos wrote:
>
> Hello All!
>
> I wanted to let you know that our Conref BP is already being 
> referenced and addressing translation problems.
>
> JoAnn
>
>  
>
> JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
> President
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> *Sent:* Friday, March 28, 2008 10:40 AM
> *To:* JoAnn Hackos
> *Subject:* Best Practice for Using the DITA CONREF Attribute for 
> Translation (coming)
>
>  
>
> Hi JoAnn,
>
>  
>
> I was wondering if you have a draft copy of the the best practice 
> document,  Best Practice for Using the DITA CONREF Attribute for 
> Translation. I was wondering if it had information pertaining to a 
> particular situation we're trying to resolve.
>
>  
>
> As you know, we have a few customers who are working with the 
> translation vendors such as SDL and Idiom. The issue we are 
> experiencing is that when customers use conrefs for managing variables 
> this creates issues for the TMS as the TMS does not resolve conrefs.
>
>  
>
> Here's what one particular customer has discovered:
>
>  
>
> We're run into a translation issue regarding our liberal use of 
> conrefs to our variables file. After talking with SDL, it seems our 
> use of conref-ed variables greatly complicates the linguist's job in 
> determining how to create gender-specific articles, plurals, and 
> possesives. This complication raises the translation costs quite 
> significantly.
>
>  
>
> Do you have any suggestions on how this type of conref use could be 
> best managed in DITA for translation?
>
>  
>
> Thanks!
>
>  
>
> Chia
>

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