RE: Looking for totally subjective opinions on HATs

["Gretchen Rogers" <grogers -at- author-it -dot- com>]

Hi Tom,

I certainly agree - small chunks of information make it difficult (if
not impossible) to determine context and this can impact on the quality
of translation.
That's why we suggest including a PDF of the entire document (we refer
to it as a "context document") to assist the translators. Objects that
are in a release state where you have also defined a review color,
appear highlighted in this document making it easier for a translator to
quickly determine context, or for a reviewer to identify what content
should be reviewed. 
The translators work with the new/modified content in the XML file, but
the PDF assists them with determining overall context...

Regards,
Gretchen :-)
(AuthorIT) 

> In case some of the resident translators don't jump in ...
> 
> You may need to balance your increased ROI against your 
> translation quality. 
> Translating the changed/new bits ONLY is likely to be as 
> successful as DTPing the changed/new bits ONLY would be :-)
> 
> You're possibly (almost certainly in the case of a loc 
> vendor) asking one writer to write chunks of a book without 
> any reference to the rest of the book which has been written 
> by other writers. This is not impossible to do if you work in 
> a well-defined application area, use controlled language and 
> have comprehensive glossaries for both your source and target 
> languages. The translator can put the localized bits through 
> her standard Translate/Edit/Proof (TEP) cycle, but that only 
> checks for consistency within the chunks. You really should 
> plan on an edit pass of the complete localized work.
> 
> A better process would be to:
> a) send everything to the translator/vendor
> b) identify the changed/new bits
> c) pay for the translation of the changed/new bits - a TM can 
> help with lowering this cost
> d) pay for an edit of the changed/new bits in the context of 
> the complete work - a TM doesn't help lowering this cost, and 
> your translator/vendor would probably charge an hourly rate 
> for the work

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