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Anki add-on for Google Translate
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Feature request: translate only text. #16

Closed gustavosmendes closed 3 years ago

gustavosmendes commented 3 years ago

Hello!

I would like to suggest this feature: if I have a field with text and image, the option to translate only the text would be useful.

Thank you for your effort.

kelciour commented 3 years ago

If I understood it correctly, it should be already possible with Format set to Text.

Format: Text

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Format: HTML

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gustavosmendes commented 3 years ago

Sorry. I meant in the aspect of translating the text and ignoring the image. Also, I noticed there are differences in translation of some cards when selected to keep html or ignore. Lastly, html translation has ignored the hints. Is there anything that can be done? image

image - translate with html

image translate only text

This represents two contexts, the one with "text only" being more trustworthy in the sense. This behavior occurs with other cards. For this reason I thought of translating "text only", ignoring other sentences.

Edit: HTML translation reminds Yoda speaking.

kelciour commented 3 years ago

I'm sorry but I don't quite understand. "Format: Text" will translate the text and ignore the image (and all other HTML tags).

If you want to use "Format: HTML" (to keep some HTML formatting like colors or bold text) but remove the image from the translated text, I'm not sure the add-on can do it. One possible option is to use Find and Replace with regular expressions from the card browser to replace something like <img.*?> with nothing. Or maybe keep the image in the translated field but hide it during review with some CSS in the Styling section of the card template like https://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_display_none

Yes, the implementation of HTML translation is kind of naive as there no option on https://translate.google.com/ to translate as HTML and it was implemented by sending HTML to translate instead of text, it was good enough on a few tests to include it in the add-on (not this time) but it's better to translate as text.

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A possible solution might be to somehow translate HTML with Chrome (#15) as it seems to work well.

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Another possible option is to add support for Google Cloud Translation API - https://cloud.google.com/translate/

About translating hints, I created a new issue - https://github.com/kelciour/google-translate/issues/17

gustavosmendes commented 3 years ago

Thank you for your effort. Last question: I'm currently trying to use the opposite: delete the text and keep only the so I can use the advanced copy fields and translate into another field. I don't understand about codes or regex. Could you tell me how I would avoid it? I've searched a lot and I have failed. e.g. I want to keep only the <img.*?> and delete the rest.

kelciour commented 3 years ago

I replied at https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/help-with-regex/13433