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topaz nexus Jul 9, 2024, 4:42 PM

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I have been working on a template for my university for a while. and so far its just been in English. A student approached me and asked me if it could also be used in Dutch, and that gave me an idea.

Using an YML document which contains the localization of all terms used in the document, the user can define their own language. It won't do anything to the text the user has written, but all words inserted by the template itself will switch to the chosen language.

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Also working on something that the user can use to show in which language a document is available in

toxic moss Jul 9, 2024, 4:43 PM

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Does this integrate with linguify or is it a custom solution

topaz nexus Jul 9, 2024, 4:43 PM

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custom

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never heard of that lol

toxic moss Jul 9, 2024, 4:43 PM

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I see

topaz nexus Jul 9, 2024, 4:43 PM

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ahh i see, might be worth checking it out

toxic moss Jul 9, 2024, 4:44 PM

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Does it handle grammatical cases or other cases of where a word is different as per context of the sentence its used in?

topaz nexus Jul 9, 2024, 4:44 PM

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it does not do anything to the user's text

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just the template text

toxic moss Jul 9, 2024, 4:44 PM

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Ah ok

topaz nexus Jul 9, 2024, 4:44 PM

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but i was happy it worked first try, and imo quite well

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so i shared it here

toxic moss Jul 9, 2024, 4:45 PM

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I could use something like that for my template since I intend to rewrite my thesis in English when I'm done

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But many of the words require additional context like which grammatical case Is used

topaz nexus Jul 9, 2024, 4:45 PM

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  // Load language data
  let language-data = yaml("assets/language.yml")
  language = language-data.at(upper(language)).at("localization")

language.at("references")

toxic moss Jul 9, 2024, 4:45 PM

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I actually had something half working too, but stopped working on ut

topaz nexus Jul 9, 2024, 4:45 PM

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thats it basically

toxic moss Jul 9, 2024, 4:45 PM

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I see

topaz nexus Jul 9, 2024, 4:45 PM

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EN:
  flag-file: EN-flag.svg
  language-en: English
  language: English
  localization:
    this-doc-is-avail: "This document is available in"
    version-history: "Version history"
    version: "Version"
    date: "Date"
    author: "Author"
    changes: "Changes"
    table-of-contents: "Table of contents"
    glossary: "Glossary"
    index: "Index"
    references: "References"

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and then this structure per language

toxic moss Jul 9, 2024, 4:46 PM

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Looks great nonetheless, although not much different to linguify it seems

topaz nexus Jul 9, 2024, 4:46 PM

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yeahh

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still gonna use this kekw

worldly raptor Jul 9, 2024, 4:48 PM

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Well done! Looks good 🙂 Looks like a nice general solution, I wonder if there's a list of common phrases/words that deserve translations so that templates could just import the right word

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like, if someone is making a template that has "Chapter 1" or something, then this package provides a function for that which looks up how to translate it in the dictionary

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CSL style 😮

topaz nexus Jul 9, 2024, 4:49 PM

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id contribute to that for Dutch 100%

toxic moss Jul 9, 2024, 4:49 PM

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worldly raptor CSL style 😮

Hmm?

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Elaborate?

worldly raptor Jul 9, 2024, 4:51 PM

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CSL is used for custom citation formats to declare how to render certain things (like how to word the DOI or something)

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well thats not too far away from how you'd translate "Chapter 1"

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you could declare a CSL term "chapter-digit" and for english it might look like <group group=" "><term "chapter"><variable "chapter-number"></group>

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it would then also define "chapter" as a constant literal term

toxic moss Jul 9, 2024, 4:53 PM

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I'm gonna go ahead and plead

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Don't do this

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CSL is needlessly complex because they chose to use XML

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And typst had scripting at its disposal

worldly raptor Jul 9, 2024, 4:54 PM

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then do it that way, I was just elaborating 😛

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I don't mean literally use the CSL format

toxic moss Jul 9, 2024, 4:55 PM

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There have been some ideas floating around about using fluent for localization

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And I believe linguify supports this already

worldly raptor Jul 9, 2024, 4:55 PM

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ooo fluent looks exactly like what I meant

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(but better)

topaz nexus Jul 9, 2024, 7:23 PM

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Pretty happy with that

worldly raptor Jul 9, 2024, 7:34 PM

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V nice

latent swallow Jul 10, 2024, 8:53 AM

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topaz nexus

Want to drive the French, Germans, and Dutch mad? when the user selects de, fr, or nl, use the Belgian flag 😄

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😈

topaz nexus Jul 10, 2024, 8:54 AM

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LOOOOL

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Hahahaha

toxic moss Jul 10, 2024, 8:56 AM

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:(

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Mooom, the belgians have delusions of grandeur again

latent swallow Jul 10, 2024, 11:01 AM

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toxic moss Mooom, the belgians have delusions of grandeur again

WE WILL TAKE OVER EUROPE

worldly raptor Jul 10, 2024, 11:12 AM

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Youre gonna need to gift me a lot of waffles to let that happen

latent swallow Jul 10, 2024, 12:35 PM

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worldly raptor Youre gonna need to gift me a lot of waffles to let that happen

And for English, we can probably use a US flag then?

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😈

worldly raptor Jul 10, 2024, 12:38 PM

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😠

topaz nexus Jul 10, 2024, 3:36 PM

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latent swallow Want to drive the French, Germans, and Dutch mad? when the user selects `de`, `f...

only if the document is generated on April first

autumn quartz Jul 10, 2024, 4:25 PM

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latent swallow And for English, we can probably use a US flag then?

For Spanish: Mexico's flag

latent swallow Jul 10, 2024, 4:25 PM

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autumn quartz For Spanish: Mexico's flag

I love your style

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and for Portugese, the flag of Brazil!

worldly raptor Jul 10, 2024, 4:59 PM

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latent swallow and for Portugese, the flag of Brazil!

Na, Spanish flag again

latent swallow Jul 10, 2024, 5:00 PM

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To be fair, the day I have a company, and it has a website, all FR, DE, and NL will be like Belgian flag with respective flags on the icons 😎

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