Forum:Translation efforts

Hi there.

We have been translating the Girl Genius comics into Slovak. (Slovak is an obscure Slavic language which is used in the central part of the Wulfenbach empire.) We just finished translation of the Act 1 (e.g. volumes 1 - 13). So

- I want to thank you all. This wiki is really valuable source of the informations.

- I want to ask: Is there any other translation efforts of the Girl Genius comics?

- I want to offer some help for other translation enthusiasts. Our translation works as the userscript. When you install it (using tampermonkey or greasemonkey), whenever you place the mouse pointer over the bubble (or any other text) at the original page, translation appears. If you want to see it work, look here: https://www.smnd.sk/girlgenius/node/12 The basic idea and some code is taken from the Czech translation of the Order of the stick comics (Thanks the @cache.slovakia guy for it.) but we add some new solutions and made pretty comfortable translation software in qt5. (See the picture.) Well, there are some things hardcoded there for our conditions (like the URL of our server for direct uploading) but if the time allows I can help with the accommodating to the other environment. The translation itself is stored in the text files like this one: https://www.smnd.sk/girlgenius/translation/20021104.txt  which are easy readable for the JavaScript (also for humans, but you need to use utf-8 encoding) and use the coordinates of the original .jpegs from the Girl Genius homepage. They can be created or edited by hand but with the translation tool it is much simplier. If you want to start with your own translation, you need your HTTP server (optimally with the ssh access to your account and the PHP support).

Anino