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Problems with automatic translation of TheWall fake post (intro_pics.svg) #11

Closed valioDOTch closed 9 years ago

valioDOTch commented 10 years ago

There apears to be lots of problem with translation of the fake post http://nothingtohide.dev.visionsinteractive.ch/overviewTable.htm FINAL/game/assets/propaganda/intro_pics.svg

Above all I ran into problems with Spanish, but the other ones were not that great either. I don't want to stretch the font non-proportianally, because it's not just "propaganda" but a type of element which has a given design (i.e. a TheWall post).

I consider making all of the fonts a bit smaller and/or adding a fourth text line.

Opinions on this?

ncase commented 10 years ago

Thank you again so much for this! Truly honoured.

As for what to do with the typography, yeah, that is tough. Because I had enough problems already creating the designs specific to English text. The solutions that come to mind include: 1) not having a direct translation, but a shorter version instead. 2) Smaller font, as you said. 3) Line/letter spacing, somehow?... I dunno either.

The other thing is, wordplay & alliterations. How does one translate those?