Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6437 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 73 of 103 08 June 2010 at 8:56pm | IP Logged |
Doitsujin wrote:
If it has an .rtf extension simply double-click it to open it in TextEdit or open it manually with MS Word or Pages.
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S/he'll probably want to use MS Word or neo office; last I checked, TextEdit did not handle parallel texts well.
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5318 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 74 of 103 08 June 2010 at 10:27pm | IP Logged |
Volte wrote:
S/he'll probably want to use MS Word or neo office; last I checked, TextEdit did not handle parallel texts well.
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I tested the TextEdit version that comes with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) with a big bilingual .rtf file and didn't have any problems. Of course, MS Word, NeoOffice etc. would be better.
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Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5564 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish
| Message 75 of 103 09 June 2010 at 12:36am | IP Logged |
Doitsujin wrote:
Most likely you clicked on a compressed .rar file. What you need to do is: right-click the link (or press Ctrl and
click it), then select Download Linked File As... from the menu and save the file on the desktop.
If it has an .rtf extension simply double-click it to open it in TextEdit or open it manually with MS Word or Pages.
If it's a .rar file you'll need to download a free archiver such as Keka to unpack it. Keka can be downloaded here:
http://www.kekaosx.com/en/
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Thank you everyone for your help and suggestions, finally have it all working now. Doitsujin, that is exactly what I
did, but just downloaded a rar archiver and have all the readble files now. Much thanks for your help.
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6437 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 76 of 103 09 June 2010 at 2:24pm | IP Logged |
Doitsujin wrote:
Volte wrote:
S/he'll probably want to use MS Word or neo office; last I checked, TextEdit did not handle parallel texts well.
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I tested the TextEdit version that comes with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) with a big bilingual .rtf file and didn't have any problems. Of course, MS Word, NeoOffice etc. would be better. |
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I'm glad to hear that. I guess it works for some, but not others (like a few other RTF readers I tried), as I used OS X 10.5 as well when I tried it.
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Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6866 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language
| Message 77 of 103 17 June 2010 at 3:39am | IP Logged |
Is there a way to download the Russian audio for "Master and Margarita" to the computer or can it only be played off the website? I don't have PRO whatever (I right-clicked on the mp3 player and it said PRO: Download Source).
It might explain how to do so so on the page, but I don't speak Russian. I tried clicking a lot of links but no success.
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onebir Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7161 days ago 487 posts - 503 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin
| Message 78 of 103 17 June 2010 at 4:30am | IP Logged |
"Is there a way to download the Russian audio for "Master and Margarita" to the computer or can it only be played off the website?"
If you can play something on your computer, you can* record it. In Audacity there's a box for choosing the type of input you want to record (top right in the toolbar. Select "Stereo mix", start playing whatever and hit record. You should see a (non-flat) waveform getting recorded.
Be aware that Audacity will create huge temporary .wav files. So if you want to record long continuous selections it's worth getting something that can record MP3 natively. (eg MP3directcut)
*Usually without much fuss. But I had to update my soundcard driver to be able to do this - the relevant option simply didn't appear. But I think I was just unlucky.
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parasitius Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5996 days ago 220 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Cantonese, Polish, Spanish, French
| Message 79 of 103 17 June 2010 at 5:09am | IP Logged |
Journeyer wrote:
Is there a way to download the Russian audio for "Master and Margarita" to the computer or can it only be played off the website? I don't have PRO whatever (I right-clicked on the mp3 player and it said PRO: Download Source).
It might explain how to do so so on the page, but I don't speak Russian. I tried clicking a lot of links but no success. |
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He doesn't need to do anything so complicated. He just needs to delete the file association his browser has for mp3s because it is calling a third party application to play it instead of prompting him to download it like he should. I guess it is quicktime, but I don't know your system details (browser, etc.) so I can't give you instructions. Google according to your webbrowser and the software that is offending you, example "remove quicktime mp3 association in firefox".
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Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6866 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language
| Message 80 of 103 17 June 2010 at 5:57am | IP Logged |
I use Firefox but also have Google Chrome if I need it.
I haven't found where I can delete the file association. And yes, I think for Firefox, the browser uses Quicktime to play the files, specifically Quicktime Plug-In 7.6.6. apparently.
I'm fiddling with stuff and Googled what you suggested, parasitius, which is an interesting name, but so far no dice. I'll keep working on it, but given the info here, how would I go about dismantling this so I can download the files?
Thanks.
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