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| SideBySide Newbie United States Joined 3622 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 1 of 6 29 December 2014 at 1:08am | IP Logged |
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If you are looking at a book in its original language and an English translation both available for free online, and you are following along side by side, but want to see each sentence of the original on the top or bottom of the English translation, is there some sort of programming that converts two pieces of text so that they converge and you can see the translation sentence by sentence, as in there is a sentence in one language then on the the next line is the same sentence in the other language?
Following along side by side is a bit hard because you have to move your eyes side to side, because there is a bit of travel distance for your eyes and sometimes you lose track and take a few seconds to find the right spot and it gets tiring. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Light Newbie Canada Joined 4428 days ago 30 posts - 42 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 2 of 6 31 December 2014 at 6:22am | IP Logged |
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Aglona Reader may be what you are looking for. It isn't perfect in that some work on your part might be required, but it certainly makes the process easy.
It allows you to read side by side, or a sentence in one language followed by the other, or you can hover your mouse over a sentence and have the translation pop up. Make sure you watch the videos for Aglona Reader on Youtube, as there's a bit of a learning curve... but you'll pick it up rather quickly. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hobom Triglot Newbie Joined 4220 days ago 33 posts - 61 votes  Speaks: German*, English, Russian Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 6 02 January 2015 at 6:15pm | IP Logged |
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In fact, there is a program which does exactly what you want, and also very conveniently.
Unfortunately, this software only has a fourteen day trial, afterwards you cannot use it anymore, unless you pay for the normal version. It is called Nova Text Aligner, and here is a video of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMzXM7DP4lw (go to 1:50, where he converts a parallel column layout to interlaced) Hope this helps. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| andras_farkas Tetraglot Groupie Hungary Joined 4903 days ago 56 posts - 165 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, Spanish, English, Italian | Message 4 of 6 05 January 2015 at 10:38am | IP Logged |
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What you are looking for is called an aligner. Side by side vs interlaced view is a trivial
issue, it is very easy to switch between the two once you have the texts aligned (paired up sentence to sentence or paragraph to paragraph). Nova is just one of the many aligners, and it happens to be one of the poorer ones (it doesn't have an autoalignment engine of any sort). Definitely not recommended. Among the commercial aligners, abbyy and alignfactory seem to be perhaps the most popular. Or try LF Aligner, which comes at an unbeatable price of zero. You can also find many pre-aligned texts on my website. If you end up making your own, consider making them available to everyone through the site (assuming they are out of copyright). P.s. I like the fact that your username is SideBySide and yet you are complaining about the difficulty of going side by side:) Edited by andras_farkas on 05 January 2015 at 10:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hobom Triglot Newbie Joined 4220 days ago 33 posts - 61 votes Speaks: German*, English, Russian Studies: Mandarin | Message 5 of 6 05 January 2015 at 11:46am | IP Logged |
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@andreas_farkas:
Indeed, LF Aligner does a fantastic job when it comes to aligning texts. However, to my knowledge there is no function that allows interlacing included in LF Aligner, or am I mistaken here? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5535 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 6 05 January 2015 at 11:57am | IP Logged |
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I have a tutorial which shows how to use LF Aligner with Aglona Reader. You need Windows (a VM is fine), a spreadsheet program, and a Ruby interpreter, so it's not for everybody. Using these instructions will allow you to align two entire ebooks, complete with a table of contents.
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