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From: "Leif B. Kristensen" <>
Subject: [TMG-L:] Re: TMG-L: Dutch language translation not complete
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 13:30:16 +0200
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On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 00:59:29 -0700, "John Romein" <>
wrote:

>I'm trying to translate a report from English to Dutch and find that not all of the English is translated. I'm using the Descendants/Journal/Genealogy Report option and I've set the language translation option to Netherlands. I expect that memos and such are not translated, but it appears words such as married and died and birth are also not translated. For example:
>
>1. Hendrik Everzen1 Romein was born in Spanbroek, North Holland, Netherlands. Hij married Altje Ariaenz Bouwen op 31 jan 1700/1 in Opmeer, Netherlands;
>
>Could someone please advise me how to correct this.

Salut John,
I don't know much about the Netherlands translation, but I'm the
compiler of the Norwegian3 language table, and I'll try to help you. But
before that I must ask you to turn off the HTML in your mail to this
list, as the digest mode can't handle it.

Actually, selecting a different language from the default is only the
first step. The Dutch translation table isn't even complete; you must
edit to your own needs. The second step is to edit the default tag
sentence of each tag that you use. For instance the Marriage tag, you
press F4 to open the tag list. Select Marriage, and then Edit. In the
bottom of the tag box, you see the sentence which reads:

"[P] married [PO] <[PARO]> <[D]> <[L]>"

Now, change the word "married" to whatever the word is in Dutch. If this
yields a syntactically bad sentence in your language, you may have to
reconstruct the sentence by shuffling the variables around a bit. In
some of the more complex tags, this task can be quite taxing. However,
you'll get the hang of it eventually.

regards,
--
Leif Biberg Kristensen | Network Manager,
Nils Kirkeruds vei 8 B | PC and Genealogy Addict
N-1339 VØYENENGA, NORWAY | Researching Solum, Telemark
Homepage (Norwegian only): http://home.sol.no/~leifkris/
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