IdiomaX Translation Suite User`s Manual
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1. 36 Dictionary Assistant 3 3 Edition of the meanings dialog box In this dialog box the meanings of the key word in the grammatical form chosen in the previous dialog box will be edited As meanings are being added edit boxes will be added in the dialog box body The meanings that are added in this dialog box will not correspond with any specialty in particular and will be introduced in the usage frequency order of them It means that the first meaning of the word will correspond with the first one in the list and so on 3T Dictionary Assistant MS Dictionary Assistant Wirte the possible meanings of the word lt AT gt as lt NOUN gt RT po Write the meanings m order of used frequency Not write the meanings associated with any particular specialty Take care with the orthography Cancel When clicking the button you will access the next dialog box of the Assistant 38 Dictionary Assistant 3 4 Selection of meanings with specialties dialog box In this dialog box the meanings of the key word for the different specialties will be edited For this there is an edit box named Translation in which the meaning will be edited and to its right in the Spec box the number that corresponds to the specialty of the edited word will be placed The program specialty list is shown below so that the desired specialty can be chosen Click on the Define Type check box if the specialty ad2. Specialities for translation in the program 4 G Grammatical types in the program General grammatical types EA PELTA EA PEET BE A 33 Specific grammatical types OP EAE E sessascant 35 I IdiomaX Translation Assistant E A I 66 IdiomaX translator F Editing and saving the text on a disk 0eeeee 25 Marking text for no translation 19 Open the document to be translated 8 Options for translation 11 Special topics for translation 6 14 Spell checking 16 Translating the document 23 M Mode for the verbs 46 R Running IdiomaX for the first UME cererea N 4 S Specialities for translation in the programM 000008 41 T The EMail Translator GeneralitieS 06 73 The Web Translator Generalities 0 70 Translating from others applications c cccce 50 Insert marks of not translating 00 55 Manual installation of the translation option from others applications 52 Options that are added to others applications 53 Remove marks of not translating 06 57 76 Alphabetical index Translate all of the Translation options 60 document 00 58 Valid documents formats 64 Translate the selected text Fah es Neate ik tale ye ai 58 TI
3. PCI display adapter In safe mode Startup When your display is set to 640x480 16 colors replace the fiemistiay file by copying Not found Vaa dry Change to Vga drv Suggestions 16 User interface of the system On the upper side the screen shows an edition box that contains the original text that will be corrected The options that appear below have the following functions 1 To get started with spelling review process the user should select the Start button The spelling review stars from the part of the text where the pointer is placed 2 The words not found in the program s dictionary will appear in the Not found box The Change to box shows the correction suggested by the program The Suggestions list shows additional suggestions 3 The Change button changes the unfound word for the word that appears in Change to box If the user wants to ignore a word that wasn t founded he she must choose the gnore button With the Mark button the user will mark automatically a word that won t be translated and with the Add button the word will be added to the active dictionary 4 Once the user has selected one of the options described before it will be performed and the program will look for another word that was not found The process will be repeated as many times as needed 5 To end with the spelling review process the user mus
4. careful introducing new meanings in the dictionary because it can cause some mistakes when translating sentences 31 Dictionary Assistant 3 1 Selection of the general grammatical type dialog box This is the initial dialog box of the program Dictionary Assistant In it you can select the general grammatical type of the meaning that is added or modified MS Dictionary Assistant Specify which is the grammar function that i going to play the meaning of word RT Noun Adjective Adverb O Verb Proper Noun Preposition Participle Gerund Conjunction Interjection A noun is the part of the sentence that is used for design people animals or things with or without materal existence Cancel 32 Dictionary Assistant The valid general grammatical types in the program are the following 1 Noun 2 Adjective 3 Adverb 4 Verb 5 Proper noun 6 Preposition 7 Participle 8 Gerund 9 Conjunction 10 Interjection You should select in the dialog box the general grammatical type for the meaning that you are being edited As the meanings with different grammatical types are being added to the dictionary the illegal types will be disabled in order to avoid errors in the addition of them When clicking the button the next dialog box of the Assistant will be accessed 33 Dictionary Assistant 3 2 Selection of the specific grammatical type dialog box Th
5. or not This box appears automatically marked if any translation was made in the text If the box is not marked when the Finish button is selected the translation won t be saved in a file In Translated file name edition box the name in which the translated text will be saved appears The program proposes automatically the name of the original file with the prefix Trd_of_ The name can be manually changed in the edition box or with the Change button In Translated file type box the format in which the translated text will be saved appears The user can select a different format with the Change button The saved document can be in any of the following formats Word 6 0 7 0 document DOC RTF file RTF Write document WRI Windows ANSI text TXT WordStar MSDOS document WS Works 4 0 document WPS Word 2 0 document DOC Word Perfect 5 x document DOC WordStar for windows document WSD Works 3 0 document WPS The Change button allows the user to change the name or type of format of the original text or 2 User interface of the system the translated text The Finish button saves the original file and or the translated file and closes the application finishing the translation process 28 Chapter 3 Dictionary Assistant Dictionary Assistant 3 Dictionary Assistant The Dictionary Assistant of the program is a set of dialo
6. the beginning of that line and the mode of the particular verb will be selected in the list 46 Dictionary Assistant If the next word is Allows to define that the translation of a word is not the established by its meanings but another one when the word that follows it is an specific one To set this property click on the check box at the beginning of that line and the word that is fixed will be edited In the line below named as Translate it as the translation in that particular case will be edited If the previous word is Allows to define that the translation of a word is not the established by its meanings but another when the previous word is an specific one As previous word is understood the preceding one if it is not an adverb If the previous word is an adverb then the previous one to it will be taken To set this property click on the check box at the beginning of that line and the word that is fixed will be edited In the line below named as Translate it as the translation in that particular case will be edited In this dialog box other elements will also appear They are the following When you finish editing all the characteristics of the meanings that are edited click on the End button With 47 Dictionary Assistant this you will return to the dialog box of the Dictionary working mode to continue the edition work of the active dictionary 48 Chapter 4 Translating fro
7. the document that can be translated 5 The text attributes are maintained from one paragraph to another in the document 6 The tables will be translated maintaining the size and position of the cells To be able to use this option it will be necessary to 1 Have installed in your computer the previously mentioned applications 2 Have selected in the program setup to install this option The program install detects if you have installed the applications previously mentioned and asks if you want to add the translation option from them If you install these applications after the program or if you do not activate this option in the installation you should install manually the translation templates To do this run the Installation Maintenance Program 5I Translating from Microsoft Word 4 1 Manual installation of the translation option from other applications If you install one of the previously mentioned applications after the program or if you do not activate this option at the installation time you should install manually the translation templates To do this you should proceed in the following way 1 Run the Installation Maintenance Program 2 Click on the Add Remove button 3 Select the Add ins item from the Options list and click on the Details button 4 Check the options you want to install and uncheck the options you want to uninstall 5 Select the OK and Contin
8. the window or change the application using ALT TAB while the Translation Assistant still running Before closing the dialogue the Translation Assistant asks if the user wants to erase the translator s icon from the taskbar If the user answers affirmative the program will be completely unload from the memory and if he she wants to use the program again the Translation Assistant option from the diomaX submenu of the Windows Program menu should be selected again 68 Chapter 6 IdiomaX Web Translator IdiomaX Web Translator 6 IdiomaX Web Translator IdiomaX has a program called IdiomaX Web Translator that allows you to translate WEB pages directly from your favorite Internet browser When installing the program the IdiomaX translation toolbar is added inside Internet Explorer This bar has several functions to translate Web pages into a specific language while you navigate The translation toolbar is composed by the following items Item Action Languages List with the translation language pairs Translate When marking this selection and once the when first web page has been translated all the browsing web pages will be translated automatically while you navigate without having to select another option A Translate the active web in the selected language pair A Open the option dialogue box Le Open the dictionary editor dialogue box 70 IdiomaX Web Translator i J Open th
9. the word or phrase that you do not want to translate 2 Select this option on the menu or click on the corresponding button in the toolbar Immediately the symbols and f will appear at the beginning and end of the selected text Take care that these symbols are not nested or overlapped within the text that is going to be translated because you will not obtain the desired results For example it is illegal to make the following marks The IdiomaX translator is the ideal translator for the work in offices What is correct is to mark in the following form The IdiomaX translator is the ideal translator for the work in offices 55 Translating from Microsoft Word Note As the symbols and are used as beginning and end marks of text blocks not to be translated these symbols cannot be used with any other function in the document If the document contains any of these symbols they should be eliminated before the translation and replaced afterwards 56 Translating from Microsoft Word 4 2 2 Remove marks of not translating This option removes the marks of not translating from the selected text in order to translate it when activating the Translate document option To remove these marks proceed in the following way 1 Select the text segment with the marks that you want to eliminate You can select more than a pair of marks simultaneously These marks should always rema
10. 1 User interface of the system 99 are use at the Note Since the symbols and beginning and the end of the no translation texts the same symbols can t be used for any other function in the document For this reason if the document contains these symbols they should be eliminated before the translation process begins and placed back after the translation is done 22 User interface of the system 2 6 Translating the document After reviewing the spelling of the document and marking the texts and words for no translation the following screen will appear with the necessary options for doing the translation Idioma Translator C Documents and Settings BIGHEADWocumenti lextos por idi This document provides complementary or late breaking information to supplement the Microsoft Windows 98 documentation Este documento proporciona informaci n complementaria o de ultima hora para suplir la documentaci n de Microsoft Windows 98 Begin translation l The Begin translation button initiates the document s translation The translation is done phrase by phrase starting with the first phrase and finishing until the entire document is translated If the user wants to stop the translation process the interruption can be done with the ESC button 23 User interface of the system 2 If the user wants to move from one phrase to another the options placed on the lower side of the dia
11. S O The new saved file will be created with the same file type as the original and the prefix T_ will be added to the name in order to differentiate it from the original 64 Chapter 5 IdiomaX Translation Assistant IdiomaX Translation Assistant 5 IdiomaX Translation Assistant IdiomaX Translation Assistant is a program that allows the user to execute the translation of a text in a fast and simple way from any Windows application When IdiomaX is installed a Translation Assistant call is added to the Windows Startup Every time the user initiates Windows this program will automatically be loaded and ready for use from any other application When the IdiomaX Translation Assistant is active the corresponding icon appears in the Windows taskbar If the user wants to translate a text while he she works in any application it will be only necessary to select the text and the Translation Assistant icon of the Windows taskbar When the program starts running the following dialogue box will be shown 66 IdiomaX Translation Assistant IdiomaX Translation Assistant Translation Assistant is a program that allows the user to execute the translation of a text in a fast and simple way El asistente de traduccion es un programa que permite que el usuario ejecute la traduccion de un texto en una via rapida y simple Ba ER Languages English gt Spanish w fR R I Word or Phrase Mea
12. User s Manual IdiomaX Translation Suite for WINDOWS 98 2000 amp XP The information included in this manual can suffer changes without previous announcement Only IdiomaX LLC and its representatives make the distribution of this product The present product is only for personal use Partial or total commercialization reproduction and distribution of this product are illegal IdiomaX LLC reserves the right to authorize the distribution of this product IdiomaX LLC warrants the contents of this package but takes no responsibility for the use of this product by a third person IdiomaX LLC Lugano TI CH 6904 P O Box 4142 Switzerland Indice Index 1 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS scssissccscessvissscsctessssiiesdicesesceeess 1 FL REGUIneMMeNIS aaa l eZ TMS Cal eee E TE 2 1 3 Running IdiomaX for the first tme 4 2 HOW TO TRANSLATE A DOCUMENT seeeessecccsececscecccoccecsceeeooe 7 2 1 Open the document to be translated ec eeeeeeeeeees 8 2 2 OpPutlons Tor Trans lAUION iiss ceacgccdveses sousanayicareassel ES 11 2 3 Special topics for translation eeeeeesssseoeeeessssssseeresss 14 DAP SPECE KIN 9 eanan ea aace sons tan nascent oan ee 16 2 5 Marking text for no translation ccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 19 2 6 Translating the document cecececcccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 23 2 7 Editing and saving the text on a disk cceeeeecceeeeee sees 25 3 DICTIONARY ASSISTANT
13. ccccocssssccccssssccccsssccccsssccccsssscocesess 30 3 1 Selection of the general grammatical type dialog box 32 3 2 Selection of the specific grammatical type dialog box 34 3 3 Edition of the meanings dialog DOX 0 0 eects 37 3 4 Selection of meanings with specialties dialog box 39 3 5 Specialties for translation in the program 0 4 3 6 Selection of the gender and number dialog box 43 3 7 Selection of the mode for the verbs dialog box 45 4 TRANSLATING FROM OTHER APPLICATIONS cccsssscocesees 50 4 1 Manual installation of the translation option from other app icanon x ose suse cassnadaiac a a 52 4 2 Options that are added to other applications to translate GOCUIME IIS siasa a A E 53 4 2 1 Insert marks of not translating ceeeeeeeeees 55 Indice 4 2 2 Remove marks of not translating 00 0 0 eeeeeeee 57 4 2 3 Translate all of the document or the selected text 58 4 2 4 Translation Options cccccccssssssseccceceeeeseeeeeeees 60 4 3 Program valid document formats cccccccceeceesseeeeeees 64 5 IDIOMAX TRANSLATION ASSISTANT ccccccccccccccccccccccccces 66 6 IDIOMAX WEB TRANSLATOR cccccscccccccccccccccccccccccccccccs 70 7 IDIOMAX E MAIL TRANSLATOR ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccces 73 8 ALPHABETICAL INDEX cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccce 76 1i Chapter I Installation Instructi
14. ded modifies the grammatical type of the keyword In that case the present grammatical type will be selected when translating the keyword and the current specialty is active 39 Dictionary Assistant MS Dictionary Assistant Wite the possible meanings of the word lt AT gt as NOUN gt write the speciality in which itis applied Meaning Spec Detine O He List to select the specialty To change the specialty click in the meaning and select in the list below or place the corresponding number imn the right box The specialty defines the meaning of the word for an application branch Cancel Once all the meanings with its corresponding specialties are edited you can access the next dialog box by clicking on the button 40 Dictionary Assistant 3 5 Specialties for translation in the program IdiomaX offers the following specialties to select the meaning of a word when translating a document Sy ae ee ae ei ee ee Agriculture Anatomy Architecture Art Automobiles Biology Biotechnology Botany Cooking Colloquial Commerce and Economics Computer Sewing Sport Law Ecology Education Entomology Pharmacy Railway Figurative Philosophy Physics 24 23 26 27 Engineering Slang Literature Logic Sea Mathematics Medicine Meteorology Military Mineralogy Mythology Music Poetical Politics Religion C
15. e About dialogue box If the WEB page cannot be translated completely because it contains very complex control elements you will be able to run the Web translator to perform this operation Web Translator allows you to translate from the following Internet browsers Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4 0 5 0 6 0 and 7 0 71 Chapter 7 IdiomaX E Mail Translator IdiomaX E Mail Translator 7 IdiomaX E Mail Translator IdiomaX allows you to translate the electronic mail messages that are in your computer only pressing a button To do this it has a program that allows you to translate in a quick and easy way any message that is being shown in your favorite mail client When IdiomaX E Mail Translator is installed a shortcut to the program will be placed in the StartUp menu After that each time Windows is started this program will be activated and it will be ready to be used in any moment When this happens the corresponding icon will appear in the Windows taskbar If you want to translate an electronic mail message you only need to load the desired message in your favorite mail client and click on the corresponding icon in the Windows taskbar Immediately the program is executed and a menu with the following options will appear 1 Mail Client In this menu option the mail client name s that is are being used will appear When selecting this option all the opened messages will be shown in such a way tha
16. e meanings that you want to give to them manually The characters to be inserted before and after those words will be placed in the squares Initial mark and End mark The default characters are 1 and is For example in a text where the word IdiomaxX is not found when we translate the sentence Il traduttore IdiomaX ideale per il lavoro d ufficio The translation will appear in the following way The diomaX translator is ideal for the office work 63 Translating from Microsoft Word 4 3 Program valid document formats IdiomaX can open documents written in another word processor It 1s possible if the document has one of the file formats that the program reads It 1s only necessary to specify the type of the document to open in the File of type list box in the Open File dialog box in the Edition of Initial text working mode The formats of the documents that the program can read are the following Word 97 2000 XP amp 2003 Document DOC RTF File RTF Write Document WRI Windows ANSI Text TXT WordPerfect 6 x Document WPD MSDOS WordStar Document WS Works 4 0 Document WPS Word 2 0 Document DOC WordPerfect 5 x Document DOC 10 WordStar for Windows Document WSD 11 Works 3 0 Document WPS 12 MSDOS Text TXT 13 Windows ANSI Text with line feed TXT 14 MSDOS Text with line feed TXT OO a e
17. following paragraph is going to be translated Tl traduttore IdiomaX ideale per il lavoro d ufficio The result will be The IdiomaX translator is ideal for the office work And the underline and bold type attributes of the word IdiomaX will be lost 59 Translating from Microsoft Word 4 2 4 Translation options This option allows to access the option configuration dialog box When selecting this option the following dialog box will appear f Option Dialog General Options Office Tools Specialties Available Specialties Translation Specialties Anatomy Architecture Botany Chemical Commerce and Economics Grammar Translation languages Spanish gt English Download Languages Wards not found Begining Mark Ending Mark In this dialog box you can modify the following elements 60 Translating from Microsoft Word Active specialties for the translation Translation languages Initial and end marks of the words not found in the dictionary 61 Translating from Microsoft Word Active specialties for the translation The active specialties for the translation allow to define the selection order of the meanings of the words in the program dictionaries For example the word sentence will be translated as frase if the selected specialty is Grammar but it would be sentenza in other case It is allowed to select more than one specialty for t
18. for the selected words these properties will be fixed In case you do not select any parameters in this dialog box the default gender and number male and singular is set to each meaning Clicking on the button the next dialog box of the Assistant is opened 44 Dictionary Assistant 3 7 Selection of the mode for the verbs dialog box This is the last dialog box of the Dictionary Assistant MS Dictionary Assistant Select one or more of the following options if the word perform any of these actions on the sentence in which is found Verb is in mode TF nest word iz Translate as UF previous word is Translate az Previous word ts rehered to the first above word that te different than an adverb Cancel 45 Dictionary Assistant In it the following elements can be defined 1 The mode in case that the meaning is a verb Particular case of translation if the previous word is an specific one 3 Particular case of translation if the next word is an specific one In the dialog box the following control elements appear The verb is in mode Defines the mode of the meaning if it is verb In case the edited meaning is not a verb then this check box will be left unchecked The mode of the verbs in the program is classified in the following way Infinitive Indicative Subjunctive Potential Imperative Gerund Past participle a ae ee To define this attribute click on the check box at
19. g boxes that allows the introduction or modification of the meanings of the words in the dictionary in an easy and fast way The dialog boxes are the following 1 Selection of the general grammatical type dialog box 2 Selection of the specific grammatical type dialog box Only valid in a few of general grammatical types 3 Edition of the meanings dialog box 4 Specialty selection dialog box 5 Number and gender selection dialog box 6 Selection of the mode for the verb dialog box You can access this Assistant from the Edition of Dictionary working mode with the Add meaning and Modify meaning options All the dialog boxes of the Assistant have the following buttons Cancel Abandons the Assistant aborting all the changes that were made in it Help Allows support on the dialog box that is activated 30 Dictionary Assistant and L Allow to go forward to the next End dialog box or backwards to the previous in order to edit again the modifications made Finishes the work with the Assistant saving the changes made to the meaning that is being edited This button will only be activated once you have introduced at least one meaning for the grammatical type of the word that is being edited In case of finishing the work with the Assistant without reaching the last dialog box the default properties for the meaning that is being introduced will be taken It is strongly recommended to be very
20. he translation among the available specialties in the program In this way each time the words are translated from the source text the meaning that fixes to the specialties defined in that list will be chosen It is necessary to be careful when selecting these specialties because the meaning of the translation can change substantially from one text to another To select the specialties for the translation proceed in the following way 1 Select in the Available specialties list the specialty you want to use 2 Click on the button and with this action you will add the specialty at the end of the Active specialties for the translation list 3 If you want to eliminate a specialty from the list select it and click on the button 62 Translating from Microsoft Word It is necessary that the specialties in the Active specialties for the translation list appear in the desired order because otherwise the effect will not be the one expected Translation languages In this box you can select the language pair for the translation It is very important to select correctly the translation language before translating the document Initial and end marks of the words not found in the dictionary The initial and end marks of the words not found allow to find in the translated text which were the words that could not be translated In this way with the Find and replace option you can replace these words by th
21. hemical Sociology Topography Veterinary medicine Zoology Geography Grammar History Print 41 Dictionary Assistant When one specialty is selected for the translation the program first looks up in the dictionary if there are specific meanings for this specialty If there are these meanings are given a priority and are taken instead of the first one that appears in the general dictionary The program allows the user to select as many specialties as desired up to the maximum number of available ones The selection order indicates the priority given when choosing the meanings of the words Note The amount of specialties installed by the program depends on the dictionaries distributed with the program To acquire other specialty dictionaries you should contact our dealer 42 Dictionary Assistant 3 6 Selection of the gender and number dialog box In this dialog box the gender and number are fixed for each one of the meanings of the word that is being edited MS Dictionary Assistant Specify the gender and number for the meanings that are shown im the list Ger Mum Meanings Male Sing Gender Male se You can mark more than one meaning for multiple edition Cancel lt gt Al End To perform this action select one or several meanings from the translation list and choose in the Gender and 43 Dictionary Assistant Number lists the adequate properties so that
22. in within the selected block otherwise the deleting action will not be performed 2 Select this option on the menu or click on the corresponding button in the toolbar Immediately the symbols and P that identify the marked block will disappear 57 Translating from Microsoft Word 4 2 3 Translate all of the document or the selected text This option allows to translate the complete document or a segment of it To translate a text segment proceed in the following way 1 Select the text segment of the active document that you want to translate 2 Select this option on the menu or click on the corresponding button in the toolbar To translate the whole document you should proceed in the same way but without selecting any text segment The program will create a new document with the translation of the original text preserving the same page format as well as letter styles When translating the position of the diagrams images and tables will be maintained The content of the cells of the tables will be translated preserving the size of their columns The style of the paragraphs will be preserved so that the centered titles the numerated paragraphs or with vignettes are maintained 58 Translating from Microsoft Word Only the attributes of the words that are different to the rest of the words in the sentence or the diagrams that are within the sentences of the text will be lost For example if the
23. is dialog box is not active for all of the general grammatical types in the program You can select in it the specific grammatical type of the meaning that is added or modified MS Dictionary Assistant Specify which type of VERE the word is RAT Transitive Verb O Intransitive Verb C Reflexive Verb O Auxiliar verb Third Person of a transitive verb Third Person of an intransitive verb transitive verb is which acts falls again directly in the person or thing that i2 the term or complement of the Sentence Cancel 2 ad 34 Dictionary Assistant The valid specific grammatical types in the program are the following In Adjective grammatical type 1 Generic adjective 2 Static adjective In Verb grammatical type Transitive verb Intransitive verb Reflexive verb Auxiliary verb Third person transitive verb Third person intransitive verb OO ee ee In Participle grammatical type 1 Transitive participle 2 Intransitive participle In Gerund grammatical type 1 Transitive gerund 2 Intransitive gerund You should select in the dialog box the specific grammatical type for the meaning that you are editing As the meanings with different grammatical types are being added to the dictionary the illegal types will be disabled in order to avoid errors in the addition of them 35 Dictionary Assistant When clicking the button the next dialog box of the Assistant will be accessed
24. le and the language in which the translation will be done If the original language of the file does not correspond 11 How to translate a document with the first language selected the quality of the translation can t be assured The user can mark with some specific symbols the words or phrases that could not be translated because they were not in the dictionary e The Begin mark edition box allows the user to place the character that should be used to mark the beginning of the words or phrases that were not translated e The End mark indicates the character or characters for marking the end of the words or phrases that were not translated In order to get better quality in the translation the program proposes the following options e The Spell checking selection box allows the user to activate or inactivate the check spelling option If the document s orthography is not already checked this option is recommendable because the misspelled words won t be found in the dictionary and its translation won t be possible With this option the user will be able to mark fragments of the text that are usually not for translation personal names mathematical expressions etc e The Mark words or phrases for not translating allows the user to activate the option for marking words or phrases that won t be translated It is recommendable to select this option because there are usually many personal na
25. lects a topic for the translation the program looks automatically for words with meanings related to the topic selected If there is a word with a meaning related to the topic selected the program chooses this meaning instead of choosing the first meaning given to that word in the general dictionary The user can select as many topics as he she wishes to The order of the selection indicates the priority for the selection of meanings Note The quantity of topics installed in the program depends on the dictionaries distributed with it In order to get other dictionaries with special topics the user should contact our distributors 15 User interface of the system 2 4 Spell checking It is really useful to review the spelling of a document before translating it because it considerably improves the quality of the translation decreasing the number missing meanings In order to review the spelling of a document it is necessary to select the spell checking option of the screen referred in section 2 2 After selecting the spell checking option the following screen will appear Idioma Translator C Documents and Settings BIGHEADWocumenti lextos por idi Make the spell checking of the document STARTUP PROBLEMS There is a compatibility issue with some PCI based display adapters If you have a PCI based computer and your computer stops responding at any of the following times On the first startup after installing your
26. logue should be selected The 14 button shows the first phrase of the original text and the correspondent translation e The cl button shows the last phrase of the original text and the correspondent translation e The KI button shows the previous phrase of the original text and the correspondent translation e The gt button shows the following phrase of the original text and the correspondent translation 24 User interface of the system 2 7 Editing and saving the text on a disk Once the translation of the entire document is done the user can give it a final review The assistant will show a screen with the original text in the upper edition box and the translated text in the lower box IdiomaxX Translator C Documents and Settings BIGHEADWocumenti lextos por idi Source file Microsoft Windows 98 README for General Information March 1998 ic Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998 This document provides complementary or late breaking information to annn lement the Miernaentt Windowe GR Anrimentation Translated file Microsoft Windows 96 el README para informacion general Marzo de 1996 c los derechos de autor Microsoft Corporation 1996 Este documento proporciona informacion complementaria o de ultima hora TS we fon we s I I a m a ee TT oe le eee an The user can review and make some final corrections in the editor that contains the translated document Wi
27. m other applications Translating from Microsoft Word 4 Translating from other applications In case you have a document with page format letter types graphics images and tables you can translate it directly from the following applications 1 Microsoft Office 97 2 Microsoft Office 2000 3 Microsoft Office XP 4 Microsoft Office 2003 5 WordPerfect for Windows 6 Lotus WordPro The result of the translation will be a document with identical format than the original The graphics and images that it contains the letter types and other attributes of the text will be maintained The content of the tables will be translated taking into consideration the size and format of the columns To access this feature the program installs in these applications a macro or routine series that allows to take the sentences of the document to be translated and send them to the translator program This program performs the translation and the result is placed in the same place of the original sentence 50 Translating from Microsoft Word Characteristics of the translation made from others applications 1 The document to be translated is preserved without any modification 2 The translated document preserves all the properties of the original as to page design and text styles 3 The images and graphics inside the body of the document are maintained translating the text that is around it 4 There is no limit as to the size of
28. mes or numerical 12 4 How to translate a document expressions that should not be translated and with this option the system will propose automatically these words to be marked If the text to be translated contains specialized vocabulary it is recommendable to specify the topic of the document in order to obtain a better quality in the translation The information should be given in the next boxes Available specialties is a list where the special topics are shown The topics related to de text should be selected Translation specialties is a list that shows the special topics that have been chosen by the user for the translation of the original text The translator will look for the meaning of words following the order of the topics in the list Add is a button that allows the user to add a selected topic from the Available specialties list to the end of the Translation specialties list Remove is a button that allows the user to eliminate a specific topic selected in the Translation specialties list 13 How to translate a document 2 3 Special topics for translation IdiomaX has the following topics for the selection of a meaning 1 Anatomy 2 Architecture 3 Botanic 4 Chemistry 5 Commerce and Economy 6 Grammar 7 Computers 8 Law 9 Sea 10 Medicine 11 Music 12 Physics 13 Zoology 14 User interface of the system When the user se
29. nings 5 Grammatical function Y The Translation Assistant has the following options 1 The Translating from list defines the direction of the translation English to Spanish or Spanish to English 2 The text to be translated is copied to the edition box of the left 3 The Translate button should be selected and the translation of the original text will appear on the right side of the edition box 4 The Meanings button looks for the different translations of the words and phrases selected in the left side of the edition box the translator starts automatically with the word placed under the cursor and the right side of the edition box is replaced with the 67 IdiomaX Translation Assistant following controls e Word Shows the word or phrase selected on the left side of the edition box e Function Shows the different grammatical functions that the word can perform e Meanings Shows a list with the translations of the word or phrase according to the grammatical function selected 5 The Close button closes the Translation Assistant sending the user back to the former application This option is recommendable if the user is not planning on use the program again immediately because the Close button unloads the active dictionary off the memory If the user wants to go back to the former application without unloading the active dictionary he she should minimize
30. ons Installation Instructions 1 Installation Instructions 1 1 Requirements For a well operation IdiomaX needs the following configuration 1 PC Pentium 2 Windows 98 Me NT 2000 or XP 3 64 Mbytes of RAM 4 140 Mbytes of free hard disk space 5 Mouse optional but recommended CD ROM drive If the RAM memory is reduced the translator s speed will decrease considerable Installation Instructions 1 2 Installation The next steps should be followed in order to install the system 1 2 Turn on your computer in Windows Insert the distribution disk in your computer CD ROM drive Run the exe file located at the CD ROM to install the system The main dialogue of the installation program will appear asking in which language would the user like to run the interface and the program s documentation as well as the drive of the directory in which the system will be copied The program s suggestion will automatically be C Program Files IdiomaX The installation of the system will start right after step J IdiomaX will appear as a new element in the Program menu of the Windows Start menu The elements of the IdiomaX program will be installed in this menu If the installation process has been successful a window will inform so In case of failure the error will be noticed and the user will have to start the installation Installation Instructions process again once the notice disa
31. pening a Window file How to translate a document Idioma Translator Select the file to be translated or type the name of a new one Cerca in My Documents S P doc Nome file Untitled doc Tipo file Word 35 37 2000 and xP dac In this dialogue the document to be translated should be localized and the user should define the type of format of the document The document should have one of the following formats 1 Word 97 2000 XP amp 2003 document doc 2 RTF file rtf 3 Write document wr1 4 Windows ANSI text txt 5 Web page htm html 6 Excel Document xls 7 WordPerfect 6 x document wpd 8 WordStar MSDOS document ws 9 Works 4 0 document wps 10 Word 2 0 document doc How to translate a document 11 WordPerfect 5 x document doc 12 WordStar for Windows document wsd 13 Work 3 0 document wps 14 MSDOS text txt 15 Windows ANSI text with change in line txt 16 MSDOS text with change in line txt If the system cannot automatically determine the format of the file to be translated the assistant will show the next screen and the user will select IdiomaX Translator AN mae gt x Doui Copyright IdionaX Lr The system could not find automatically the type of the selected file You should specify the corresponding type in the following list Word 95 97 2000 and P Document RTF File Write Doc
32. ppears from the screen If there is any question about the installation of the system consult with your IdiomaX distributor Installation Instructions 1 3 Running IdiomaX for the first time Once the user has installed the system the Programs menu of the Windows Start menu will show a new element IdiomaX In IdiomaX the user will find the following components l IdiomaX Translator 2 IdiomaX Translation Assistant 3 IdiomaX Web Translator 4 Program uninstaller S IdiomaX Office Translator 6 Tutorial Program for translation Program that allows the translation of a text from any Windows application Program that allows the translation of a WEB page from any browser of Internet Program that uninstalls all the system s components Allow you to install the translator s options and use them from Office Applications Step by step guided tour through translator for user training To run the program the user should follow the next process Installation Instructions 1 Select the option diomaxX from the Programs menu of the Windows Start menu 2 Select IdiomaX Translator from the menu The program will run and the presentation window will appear Chapter 2 How to translate a document How to translate a document 2 How to translate a document The program has been designed as an assistant that guides the user through a series of steps requi
33. red for the translation The following steps need to be performed l 2 gt dy 8 Open the document with the original text to be translated Select the options for translation Check the spelling of the original text Select the words and paragraphs of the original text that won t be translated Execute the translation Review the translation made in order to improve the style Edit the translated text and save it on the disk Finish the work with the system Some of the former steps are optional spell checking and marking the words or paragraphs that won t be translated but it is recommendable to perform all of the steps so the user can assure a good quality for the translation How to translate a document 2 1 Open the document to be translated To open the document to be translated is the first step needed when the program runs The user will be able to open the document in one of the following ways 1 Typing the text in a word processor program and saving the document in one of the formats that the program can read look further for the formats of a document 2 The user can scan the document and then process the document with the Characters Recognizer Program installed in the computer 3 Getting the document by MODEM The program should start running once the user has the document for translation After the presentation screen the next screen will appear with the standard dialogue box for o
34. rmation to Supplement the Microsoft Windows 98 documentation Text to mark Microsoft Windows 98 Add Previous Word Add Next Word Remove First Word Remove Last Word Nea On the upper side of the screen appears an edition box that contains the original text where the words and phrases for no translation will be marked The options shown below have the following functions 1 The Search button localizes the first word or phrase that should be marked for no translation 2 The word or phrase found will appear immediately in the Text to mark box 3 The Add Previous Word button adds the previous word of the marked phrase to the marked selection 20 User interface of the system 4 The Add Next Word button adds the next word of the marked phrase to the marked selection 5 The Remove First Word button eliminates the first word of the marked phrase from the marked selection 6 The Remove Last Word button eliminates the last word of the marked phrase from the marked selection 7 The Ignore button ignores the selection With this button the user won t mark the selection in the editing box and will look for the next phrase or word 8 With the Mark button the marks for no translation will be placed Note Once the Mark or Ignore button are selected for a specific phrase or word the action will be executed in the document to be translated 2
35. t select the Close button 17 User interface of the system Once the buttons Change or Ignore are selected the action will be executed without interaction with the user as many times as the word appears along the document 18 User interface of the system 2 5 Marking text for no translation Almost all documents to be translated have personal names abbreviations initials etc that should not be translated to another language If the user tries to translate these words or phrases the result would be a decrease on the quality of the translated document To indicate to the system not to translate these texts there are marks that keep them unchangeable along the translation process The marks are and and these should be placed by the user at the beginning and the end of the selected text To see the dialogue that allows marking texts for no translation the option of the screen referred in section 2 2 should be previously selected by the user In the next screen the action of marking words and phrases for no translation will be done 19 User interface of the system Idioma Translator C Documents and Settings BIGHEADWocumenti lextos por idi Mark the words or phrases that should not be translated Microsoft Windows 96 README for General Information March 1998 ic Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998 This document provides complementary or late breaking info
36. t you can identify them by their subjects and to select the one you want to translate 2 Dictionary Editor It shows the translation dictionary editor dialogue box 73 3 Options 4 Help 5 About 6 Uninstall IdiomaX E Mail Translator where you can add modify or remove words from the translation dictionaries It shows the translation option dialogue box where you can select the translation language pair to be used the text specialty etc Show this help topic It shows the program information It removes the icon from the WINDOWS taskbar The shortcut to the program remains in the STARTUP menu it will be executed next time WINDOWS is started The electronic mail clients that are supported now are the following 1 Microsoft Outlook 2 Microsoft Outlook Express If the message to be translated is going to be sent you can copy the corresponding translation to the clipboard and paste it in the original message 74 Annexes Alphabetical Index Alphabetical index 8 Alphabetical index D Dictionary Assistant 30 Edition of the meanings dialog bOX 00 37 Meanings with specialties dialog bOX 00 39 Mode for the verbs dialog DOK rora aa es 45 Selection of the gender and number dialog box 43 Selection of the general grammatical type dialog DOK raar oh 32 Selection of the specific grammatical type dialog DOX sstauvewatedsahetewan 34
37. th the following screen the user can save in a disk the files with both the original and the translated text 25 User interface of the system Idioma Translator C Documents and Settings BIGHEADWocumenti lextos por idi k X Copyright Tdiom X Tr C Save the source file Source file name Source file type Save the translated file Translated file name C Documents and Settings BIGHEAD Documenti T extos Coase Translated file type Windows Text txt The previous dialogue has the following options 1 The Save the source file selection box indicates if the original file will be saved or not If any change on the original text was executed this will be automatically marked If the user doesn t find any mark in the box and he she selects the Finish button all the changes done to the original file will be ignored 2 In the Source file name edition box a name for the original text should be given The program proposes automatically the name that the original text had before The name can be changed manually in the edition box or change with the Change button 3 In the Source file type box the format in which the original text will be saved appears It is possible to 26 User interface of the system select another format with the Change button The Save the translated file box indicates if the translated text will be saved
38. ue buttons to perform the program updates Immediately the Installation Maintenance Program performs the necessary system updates and the added options appears the next time you run the application If you have any problem with the installation of these translation options consult your dealer 52 Translating from Microsoft Word 4 2 Options that are added to other applications to translate documents The options that are added to other applications to translate documents are the following Insert marks of not translating Delete the marks of not translating Translate document or marked text Translation options Dictionary editor About AFAR ae These ones will be placed in the Translator menu and in the IdiomaX toolbar so that they can be easily used The buttons that are added to the toolbar are the following Buttons Action Marks the text for not translating Removes marks for translating Translates all the document or the selected text a A Shows a dialog box for translation options 53 Translating from Microsoft Word 4 Shows the dictionary editor dialog box ij d Shows the About dialog box 54 Translating from Microsoft Word 4 2 1 Insert marks of not translating This option adds the beginning and end marks to the selected text so that it will not be translated when using the option translate document To place these marks proceed in the following way 1 Select
39. ument Windows Text Web page Excel Document WordPerfect 6 x Document MSDOS WordStar Document Works 4 0 Document Word 2 0 Document WordPerfect 5 x Document WordStar for Windows Document Works 3 0 Document If the type of format does not belong to the original file an error will be produced and the document will not be open or will run incorrectly 10 How to translate a document 2 2 Options for translation After opening the document the assistant shows a dialogue where the text to be translated edits If the user wishes to modify the document before translating it he she can do it with this dialogue The next screen will appear showing different options that the user can select before translating the document Idioma Translator C Documents and Settings BIGHEADWocumenti lextos por idi Translation languages English gt Spanish Download Languages If you want mark the words not found For a better translation you can make Begin mark C Spell checking End mark l C Mark words or phrases for not translating To obtain a better translation quality you should select the specialties of the text to be translated Available specialties Translation specialties Anatomy Architecture Botany Chemical Commerce and Economics Remove v Grammar Add 1 In the Translation direction box two languages should be selected the original language of the fi
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