Finding Your Way Through the MultiLingual Maze

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Finding Your Way Through the Multi-Lingual Maze
Presented By Bret Freeman Field Support
Manager Progressive Information Technologies
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The High Level Issues

• Maintaining relationships between various
  languages
• Automating the Translation Process
• Constructing Workflows
• Publishing the Various Languages

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Maintaining relationships between various
languages

• How do I organize multi-language content?
• How do I know when translations should occur?
• How do I leverage machine/memory translators?

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Relationships between the data
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Relationships between the data
MANUALS
Procedures
Frontmatter
Images
Amonishments
Images
Frontmatter
Procedures
Admonishments
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Relationships of English Content
Maximizing re-use
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Multi-lingual linked content
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Multi-lingual linked content
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Relationships between base and translated
languages
Japanese Manual
English Manual
Front Ref
Spanish Manual
Procedure Ref
Image ref
Admon ref
French Manual
Swedish Manual
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Relationships between base and translated
languages
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Translation Notification
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Translation Notification
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Translation Notification
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Shortcutting the Translation Process with
Automation
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Automating the Translation Process
Procedures
Existing Procedure
New Procedure and ID Info
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Automating the Translation Process
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Automating the Translation Process
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Automating the Translation Process
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Constructing Workflows
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Constructing Workflows
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Constructing Workflows
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Finding a better way to Publish Multi-Lingual
Versions
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Publishing the Various Languages

• Vasont is fully Unicode-enabled (UTF-16)

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Publishing the Various Languages
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