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While this isn't a Madcap-related solution, you could have just about any freelance translator do that task.

Most general translation applications (such as SDL Trados) include flexible alignment tools. You could break your XLS into 2 .doc or .txt files and then run those through the alignment tool.

Many (if not most) translators worth their price-per-word quote use a CAT - Computer Assisted Translation tool. These are database-driven and commonly include an XML editor. I'm most familiar with SDL Trados, which is one of the biggest market players in that field, so I'll comment on that, though I...

Just wondering, has anyone come up with a simple way to convert a TBX glossary (like the Microsoft terminology dump) to the TBX-basic format that Lingo supports?

This is a very common issue, and it's present in most technical environments. It's also easy to solve. Assuming you use a versioning system, I suggest creating a branch version of the project you sent out for translation. In practice, this would mean a backup copy that was sent out and existed on a ...

If they use Trados, you can define "locked" tags by creating a custom project settings .ini file for Trados Tageditor. It's a bit complicated, and you'll need someone who has a basic knowledge of XML and possibly Trados, but once you have your .ini file done, you can use it for any project...

I hope I'm not duplicating an old question, I'd assume I'm not the first to encounter it, but I couldn't find a post on this around the forums. I've run into a somewhat bizzare issue I can't wrap my head around. Flare supports PDF output directly through MS Word 2007+PDF plugin. So far so good. I ru...

Sometimes this is not a handy option, particularly if the complete document is gigantic. You could tag each section with a separate condition and then make target files to include one or several sections, and exclude others.

Couldn't you do that by heavily padding your list css class?

Far be it from me to advertise smoking, but it's what makes me leave my chair often, and since the good ole days of Windows98, I've embraced the habit of saving my work before I got up. My advice, get used to saving your work whenever you do a common and repetitive task. Flare aside, there's loads o...

KevinDAmery wrote:Flare doesn't pick up on them when it generates cross references, TOC names, etc.

Sigh....... Thanks for the heads up, I know what I'll be double-checking all weekend.

It's my experience that having separate projects for languages works and then the WebHelp is pulled up by the software depending on the UI language selection. Keeping the languages in separate projects makes it easier for me to deal with the continuous documentation work. Basically, I use a versioni...

A cross-reference is what you want to use for referencing other topics from the project or headings/bookmarks in the same document . They will display your topic title or the heading that you chose, while referring the reader to the actual location. Hyperlinks are primarily used to link outside the ...

Other than the usual variable syntax, Flare uses a different syntax for the TOC. I'm not at work right now, but I can tell you that the bracketed syntax you posted is not the one I'm using. :D I believe simply entering the following as your TOC entry is what provides a working variable output. If th...

Setting an excluded welcome page should report a missing topic error. As there are so many ways of excluding text, and I wouldn't want to sound condescending asking you if you only tagged them in the TOC and so on... If you could provide screenshots of your exclusion tags on the text (blur out any o...

Well... as a workaround, I'd suggest publishing it by other means. As you say, the project builds ok, and you get stuck on the integrated publishing process. As such, publishing by upload is little more than a remote file copy process, and there are other tools available for that, depending on what ...

I'm not as "techy" as the rest of you sound... First of all, do let me know if your marriage falls though someday and I'll propose. I hope you don't mind me adopting that statement for the occasional office snipe, it's sheer brilliance in a can. Regarding the rest of your post, I'd like t...

KevinDAmery wrote:You know you've been playing wayyy too many video games when...

... you look at the new Flare icon with the fountain pen and think "why is Simon holding a sword?"

Clearly a polearm.

I've avoided adding my thoughts until now, because I like the ribbon. I find Office 07 far better to use. Eventually, we had to come to this grim realization. In the world of computers and software, voicing one's approval is almost a taboo. Complaints are rampant, and everyone who has one has the u...

The list of commercial vendors is probably going to be slim in the start and increase with time, once they pick up on the fact that a share of their target market works in this tool. Secondly, please please don't choose your localization vendor on the basis of whether or not he already has Lingo (un...

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So now the ribbon is the "new black"? Give it a few years and they go back to the then new black, which is menus and tool bars. Maybe they make them come out from the side or something claiming that they got patents on that although others do that already today. I just don't get why every...

Like it or not, the ribbon is the new black. Ok, so it's a bit on the brown side right now, but it will be the new black when MS decides to stop providing support for MSO2003. The fact of the matter is that Windows and MSO still dictate industry standards, and over time, loads of software vendors wi...

.... That's the problem. It seems that Flare was created by a bunch of software developers who all have ponytails, straggly beards, and broken spectacles held together with insulating tape. What it seems to lack is input from people who actually create documentation. I had been warned that Flare wa...

What you seem to be in need of is an extended "tutorial". A help system with a finished product sample and individual steps on how to make it :) Help doesn't get much more understandable than that. Aparently I'm ok with klingon I guess, I find the help solid enough. However, it's very &quo...