Thanks to Hagen and Stefan for their suggestions. I will proceed with the revision next week according to their recommendations.
The Sunburned Surveyor On 12/12/06, Stefan Steiniger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hei Sunburned > > > >HafenCity = Hafen City > >Universität Hamburg = University of Hamburg > >Department Geomatik = Department of Geomatics > >Dipl.-Ing. = ??? > > > >Could one of our German developers confirm this for me? > > > > > actually i think you leave the stuff mentioned above as it is. > Because they are specific terms and names which are usually not > translated - to avoid confusion if one tries to handle with it. > But for clarification my notes: > - HafenCity => is a name for a specific part of Hamburg > - Universität Hamburg => could be actually translated in the way you did > => the best thing is you simply write "HafenCity University of Hamburg" > - Department Geomatik => could be actually translated in the way you did > - Dipl.-Ing. => is a german degree similar to Master of Science (MSc). > But translating degrees without saying that the original term is quite > tricky. > > apart from that, here is a nice page for translation of german terms: > http://dict.leo.org/ > > >Also, I'm having some trouble with the revision effort. I find that > >when I make some of my basic changes to more "proper" English that the > >diffrences in the amount of text is throwing the pictures and other > >layouts all out of whack. > > > > > i know the problem ;) > > >I think I might have to start laying out the tutorial in a new > >document so I can get it right. It's going to be a real pain in the > >neck to try and get things working in the original version. > > > >Is that going to be O.K. with Uwe and Stefan? I'm not really changing > >the actual text of the document, just rejiggering the way the pages > >fall into place. > > > > > yep .. would be ok > > stefan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
