Lots of work this afternoon.\u00a0 The translator writing direct to the typesetter with instructions caused quite a flurry!\u00a0 But the situation is now under control and I’m back in the middle, vetting and batching up changes.\u00a0 It’s quite impossible for anyone\u00a0 to do something like typesetting with two people issuing instructions anyway.<\/p>\n
So it meant that this afternoon I had to boil down all the emails and turn them into something sensible.\u00a0 I ended up using features of Adobe Acrobat which I have not used before.\u00a0 What I did was right-click in the area I needed to change, and choose “Add sticky”.\u00a0 This put a postit-like box on the page, which I could position in the margin and add notes in.\u00a0 I also highlighted text that was changing.<\/p>\n
This is a very good way of sending corrections to the original language.<\/p>\n
Another thing that came in was a revised translation of the first four letters of Isidore of Pelusium.\u00a0 I commissioned a sample of these, but it wasn’t very satisfactory.\u00a0 This version is much better, and the footnotes are good.\u00a0 The English is still a bit tortured, tho.\u00a0 I’ve gone through it and marked up queries and so forth in blue.\u00a0 I think the result might well be do-able, tho.\u00a0 A couple of sentences had no main clause, tho, which is worrying (and might be a feature of Isidore’s text, which is very abbreviated).<\/p>\n
I also had an email from the chap in India who transcribed a bunch of Syriac text for me for the web a while ago.\u00a0 Apparently he’s on the market again.\u00a0 I think I’ll get him to do the letter of Mara bar Serapion.\u00a0 It might be interesting if he could translate some Syriac for me.\u00a0 But people whose first language is not English tend to have difficulty with this.<\/p>\n
Life is pretty busy for me at the moment.\u00a0 In real life I am trying to get a new job, and the agency I am dealing with are being very difficult to deal with.\u00a0 I was supposed to start on Monday; after weeks of delay, after sitting here all day twitching, the contract was\u00a0emailed to me at 5:50 pm!\u00a0 And when I look at it… it’s not what I was supposed to get.\u00a0 Indeed it’s horrible in places.\u00a0 So I’m rather tired and hope everyone will make allowances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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