calculations
Nov. 30th, 2004 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesUnless I screw up the final exam irredeemably (did I just invent that word?), I've got an A in L10N for the semester. I think I've got an A in SciTechMed, too, since I got an A on the midterm (which I wasn't expecting, since I really didn't like that translation very much). So I can live with a B in Advanced French Composition, which is what I'm likely to get unless I pull off a couple of miracles myself or unless the prof takes pity on me and gives me an A anyway (which is what happened with Semiotics last year).
I learned some new things about WinAlign this afternoon, mostly of the "it hurts when I do this/well, don't do that!" variety. Notably, clear out all extraneous paragraph marks in both source and target texts, make sure you don't have anything in one text that isn't in the other, and pray you don't get any odd splits between segments, because if source A contains target B and C, that's fine, but if A contains half of B carried over from the previous segment and half of C carried over into the next segment, you can't align A with B and C. It only works in one direction, meaning that you can align one source segment with multiple target segments or one target segment with multiple source segments, but you can't do both at once.
I wonder, in retrospect, if that problem would go away if I told WinAlign to ignore all segmentation except for paragraph marks. Maybe I'll play with it some more later this week, after I get done with the composition exercises and all like that there.
I also learned some new things about Find/Replace in MS Word. Thank goodness it knows what paragraph marks are. I had so many of them at the ends of lines that I had to go through the entire alphabet one letter at a time doing "Find paragraph mark and letter/Replace with space and letter". Which was mildly amusing, because French uses a lot more Js and Qs and Xs than English does, and doesn't use Ws at all except in foreign words. Small things amuse small minds, I guess.
I have got to remember to go buy milk tomorrow, and take back the library books.
I learned some new things about WinAlign this afternoon, mostly of the "it hurts when I do this/well, don't do that!" variety. Notably, clear out all extraneous paragraph marks in both source and target texts, make sure you don't have anything in one text that isn't in the other, and pray you don't get any odd splits between segments, because if source A contains target B and C, that's fine, but if A contains half of B carried over from the previous segment and half of C carried over into the next segment, you can't align A with B and C. It only works in one direction, meaning that you can align one source segment with multiple target segments or one target segment with multiple source segments, but you can't do both at once.
I wonder, in retrospect, if that problem would go away if I told WinAlign to ignore all segmentation except for paragraph marks. Maybe I'll play with it some more later this week, after I get done with the composition exercises and all like that there.
I also learned some new things about Find/Replace in MS Word. Thank goodness it knows what paragraph marks are. I had so many of them at the ends of lines that I had to go through the entire alphabet one letter at a time doing "Find paragraph mark and letter/Replace with space and letter". Which was mildly amusing, because French uses a lot more Js and Qs and Xs than English does, and doesn't use Ws at all except in foreign words. Small things amuse small minds, I guess.
I have got to remember to go buy milk tomorrow, and take back the library books.
