📌 Useful tips and tricks for translators on LT

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月, 12/12/2016 - 12:56

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Edit 09/2017:
I renamed the thread from "How to format lyrics" (something like that) to "Useful tips and tricks for translators on LT" to make it a more general "tips and tricks" kind of thread.

Hey! It might well be that this post isn't neccessary at all or relevant to you specifically, but if it is, read on.
Sometimes you may find lyrics that are in UPPERCASE letters. What do you do when you want to make it so that only the first letter of each line is a capital letter?

1. Open Openoffice or Word
2. Press and hold the ALT key. This enables you to highlight columns of text, which means you can highlight all other text except for the first capitals of each line.
3. Go to Format -> Text -> Lowercase. Done!

月, 12/12/2016 - 13:51

Sciera

前 관리자 and Scholar of a Dark Age

등록: 16.02.2011

Thank you, I didn't know how to highlight not the first letter in this automatic way.

However, there is another possibility (at least in LibreOffice, I don't know about those other programs):
1. Click ctrl + a to highlight the whole text
2. Click on the right mouse key and choose "Change Case" and then "Sentence case", thereby capitalizing only the first letter of each line. (You may have to change the formatting of the text, though, sometimes texts are formatted in a way that treats whole paragraphs as one line.)

Afterwards, if it's an English text, open "Find & Replace" in the edit menu, type " i " in the search box and " I " into the replace box and click on "replace all". Repeat with " i'" and " I'". Thereby you capitalize basically every instance of the word "I".

EDIT: I took a look at your video, and saw that your method doesn't work. Even if holding the Alt key, you don't only select all but the first letter, but, depending on the width of the letters, sometimes also not the second letter. In your example in only works since the first words already were capitalized properly. You'd first have to format the text to have letters of equal width.

月, 12/12/2016 - 15:28

Fantasy

Master

등록: 16.02.2016

You can use Shift+F3 to switch between all caps, no caps, and word-initial caps in Microsoft Word.
Ctrl + A --> Shift + F3

月, 12/12/2016 - 15:41

Alexander Laskavtsev

前 관리자 Alex the Translator

등록: 06.06.2015

http://texthandler.com/?module=letter_case_converter

The best solution ;)

水, 14/12/2016 - 15:01

Don Juan

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등록: 05.04.2012

Microsoft Word has a button that allows you to uncapitalize words, leave everything in minuscules or simply capitalize the first letter of a sentence/verse. It's always worked with me.

BTW, I marked this as 'Sticky' so it wouldn't be lost with time.

木, 20/04/2017 - 12:28

SaintMark

Banned User

등록: 06.02.2016

https://convertcase.net/

always worked for me

水, 28/06/2017 - 17:36

Sciera

前 관리자 and Scholar of a Dark Age

등록: 16.02.2011

I agree, notepad++ is great. I sometimes use it at work and it also came in handy on programming courses I did.

日, 08/10/2017 - 13:20

Fantasy

Master

등록: 16.02.2016

In Microsoft Word, under Home Tab, the first section is "clipboard" and if you click on the little button in the right bottom corner of the section, it will open a clipboard manager that will collect up to 24 items.

日, 08/10/2017 - 18:48

Don Juan

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I've been using a browser extension named Lazarus (for Firefox), but for some reason it is no longer working. I'll give a check at your suggestions, thanks for them, BTW ;)

#10

日, 08/10/2017 - 20:39

(Reply to #9)

Sciera

前 관리자 and Scholar of a Dark Age

등록: 16.02.2011

Alma Barroca a écrit :

I've been using a browser extension named Lazarus (for Firefox), but for some reason it is no longer working. I'll give a check at your suggestions, thanks for them, BTW ;)

Using Lazarus, too, and it's still working. But I don't use Firefox but Pale Moon.

#11

金, 03/07/2020 - 08:07

Pääsuke

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등록: 03.05.2018

This is not a tip about translation per se, but something that users should keep in mind. I have this on my profile, but figured I'd add it here, too.

Two important things to consider for new users

1. Making requests: Request the translation/ transcription (the writing down) of a song by going to: Main menu bar → Actions → Request a translation/ Request a transcription.

2. When adding a song, remember to also add the video. Also make sure that you're adding an official one, as those are not usually removed from Youtube, which reduces Editors' and Moderators' workload as they do not have to re-add the videos. Official videos come in one of the four formats:

• Artist Name - Song Name (Topic) - Titles with the word "Topic" after them are videos generated by Youtube.
• Artist Name ♪ - Song Name - Artist names with a note (♪) after them are the official channel of the artist.
• Artist NameVEVO - Song Name - Artist names with "VEVO" after them also indicate an official channel.
• Artist Name - Song Name (Official) - This is the rarest format and means that this is an independent artist. If the video is indeed an official one, the profile name usually matches with the artist's name.

Sometimes you have to scroll further down to find the correct video.

#12

月, 15/01/2024 - 14:11

Mizu

Senior Member

등록: 03.03.2021

Hi! I've translated a song but I want to add explanations on it. How can I do it? Thanks.

#13

月, 15/01/2024 - 16:07

(Reply to #12)

Pääsuke

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등록: 03.05.2018

Take a look at this page: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/filter/tips

Look at "Filtered HTML", it's the second paragraph about adding footnotes. Basically, you enclose the fn tag into square brackets. Make sure to write the tags exactly as on that page or it might not work. You can also use the less than or greater than symbols, which I find more convenient. Also, the "Compose tips" website provides other formatting tips, too.