What is involved in reindexing a translation? Persoa que publicou o fío: Sandra Alboum
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Sandra Alboum 
United States
Local time: 16:35
Membro (2003)
Spanish to English
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We are quoting on a project that involves translating a book that has an existing index in the back with reference pages for terms that appear. The client has asked how much it will cost to "reindex" the piece -- i.e., translate the index and make sure that the page references are correct. (Or at least that's how I understand it.)
Has anyone done something like this before? What's involved? Is there software that can recreate an index so I can find all instances of specific term... See more We are quoting on a project that involves translating a book that has an existing index in the back with reference pages for terms that appear. The client has asked how much it will cost to "reindex" the piece -- i.e., translate the index and make sure that the page references are correct. (Or at least that's how I understand it.)
Has anyone done something like this before? What's involved? Is there software that can recreate an index so I can find all instances of specific terms in a text and cross reference with their page numbers?
Something like
Dogs 6, 17
turning into
Perros 7, 18 (because the text ran long and everything got bumped a page)
Please help!
Thanks.
Sandra ▲ Collapse
| | | | | | | Its like you think | Mar 3, 2010 |
But don't forget: Indexing can be done only after the layout is done. If the layout is done with QuarkXpress or InDesign .... Word won't help. You will have to do it by hand or with the program they use.
Derk
| | | | RieM
United States
Local time: 16:35
English to Japanese
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| regenerating the index file | Mar 3, 2010 |
It means to translate index entries (should be inserted already, hence "re"-indexing") and generate a new index file, which contains all entries sorted properly, as opposed to just translate the index file given. It may require a little tweaking with the index file template (if provided).
I do not believe the client is asking you to insert new indexes.. but I'm not 100 percent sure. Do you have source files? If so, just take a look.
Regards,
Rie
As ... See more It means to translate index entries (should be inserted already, hence "re"-indexing") and generate a new index file, which contains all entries sorted properly, as opposed to just translate the index file given. It may require a little tweaking with the index file template (if provided).
I do not believe the client is asking you to insert new indexes.. but I'm not 100 percent sure. Do you have source files? If so, just take a look.
Regards,
Rie
As for quoting, (assuming I'm right about reindexing), it is probably easy to start with roughly counting how many entries are in the source index file. Translation might require some degree of transcreation rather than literal translation so the these index pages become as useful in the target language.
By the way, Word does have indexing capability.
[Edited at 2010-03-03 19:45 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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Claudio Porcellana (X)
Italy
| translate the index and make sure that the page references are correct? | Mar 3, 2010 |
Sandra dixit: The client has asked how much it will cost to "reindex" the piece -- i.e., translate the index and make sure that the page references are correct.
In this case, I think one have simply to translate the text, then translate the index, and finally match numbers with pages: a quite simple and fast job (if the file is not too long) that in publishing houses is made by editors (not translators) and that is to be made, clearly, with the software used for printing run
s... See more Sandra dixit: The client has asked how much it will cost to "reindex" the piece -- i.e., translate the index and make sure that the page references are correct.
In this case, I think one have simply to translate the text, then translate the index, and finally match numbers with pages: a quite simple and fast job (if the file is not too long) that in publishing houses is made by editors (not translators) and that is to be made, clearly, with the software used for printing run
so I think it's better to ask them for clarifications
for example, ICD-9 English entries don't follow the same order than ICD-9 Spanish entries, so I think there is no reason to move entries: i.e. English and Spanish indexes will be naturally differently ordered
Claudio
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