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SpaceWeavil
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 Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 7:07 pm Post subject: Sindarin translations |
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I have a question – I’m working at the moment on a story that is entirely set in Caras Galadhon and part of the plot does revolve around a lot of elvish singing. Now, I’m trying to keep this down to a minimum – no three page long arias or anything  but I did rather like the idea of having a few bits in Sindarin here and there, and was wondering if there was any accepted practise for adding translations? I’ve managed to avoid using much Elvish in other stories and when I have, or when I used Old English for Rohan, I managed to put a translation in parenthesis without (IMO) it sounding awkward but I don’t know if it’s going to be possible in this story. Usually I would use footnotes, as I normally work in MS Word format, but would that work on uploading a document here? Or is there some other way perhaps?
I’d be very grateful for any suggestions.
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Moralanqua
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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This is how im doing it - when i dont mess up the formatting:
(exert from chapter 2 of Ballads)
“Ir in aeair ah eryd dannar, a telim nan methed oer
When the seas and mountains fall, and we come to the end of days
Linnon i charthad uireb nin am meleth, Le cenithon 'nín elei nín.
I sing my eternal hope for love, I will see thou in my dreams.
A min elei nín ageveditham
And in my dreams we will meet again... "
I think it works for songs etc because you can see what the translation is immediately and dont have to scroll down and get sucked out of the moment?
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:45 am Post subject: Sindarin translations |
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That works really well for me, reading it. Thanks, I will try that, if I can master formatting things. 
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SpaceWeavil
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I’m probably being really thick here, but I can’t work out how to add italics to text after it’s uploaded. I tried pressing ‘reformat’ and that did absolutely nothing, so I am now a bit stuck. Can anyone help please….?
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Moralanqua
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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HTML is darlin!
<*i>...</i>
remove that wee star. I had to go in and manually do this. MS Word works fine but other software seems to forget!!
Robbie the Tech Genius, may also have a quick fix.
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