Alternative Blog of ltlnx

My favorite online translator, DeepL, just added support for Traditional Chinese. As an amateur translator from English to Chinese, I do translations for the Inkscape interface and their website, so I thought I'd make a review of the translation quality, and how it compares to Google Translate, a rival translation service. Just for fun, I'll throw in LibreTranslate into the mix to see where it's at. Inkscape's 20th Anniversary Let's start with one of the articles I recently translated into Chinese, Inkscape's 20th Anniversary . The translations weren't influenced by any translator program, and was my honest attempt to make the article understandable in Traditional Chinese. I'll start by comparing the first few paragraphs. Original On November 18, 2023, the Inkscape project celebrated its 20th anniversary. The anniversary celebration was an online get-together of Inkscape users and contributors. This was an initiative by the Vectors team and the i...

This will be eventually expanded, but for now it's just a quick reference to how I tend to work with different branches upstream. This may only apply to the Inkscape repo on GitLab. Fork the project First of all we need to fork the project. I'm going to explain this with the Inkscape Documentation repo, but it applies to the main repo and other places too. In the original project page, click on the Fork Button button at the top right of the page. Enter or edit the information. All of them can be changed, they won't affect the fork relationship between your forked repo and the upstream. Note: Be sure the "Branches to include" is set to "All branches" . It's the default so you don't need to worry much. Click on the blue Fork Project button. Clone the project to your local computer Next we need to get the files to work on, so we'll clone the project down to our own computers. In the forked project page (where you...