Question Tool for post-editing MTL chapters?

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  1. miscalculation2

    miscalculation2 Active Member

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    Let's say you find some surprisingly decent MTL'ed chapters that just need some reformulating. You want to rewrite them (without even looking at the source text).

    Now you could obviously just open a Word document, paste the MTL text in it, and post-edit it.
    But is there a better way to do this? I'd be looking for a tool that:
    • Shows the text in a format that's more agreeable to read than Word
    • Makes use of configurable search-and-replace rules (since MTL is often inconsistent in proper names, you can make a rule to always replace [misspelled version 1 of name, misspelled version 2 of name, ...] with [correct name]
    • (optional) has concordance functionality so you can look up past chapters
     
  2. Bobwillrule

    Bobwillrule Supreme Ruler of Bobylon

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    Lol you probably know this already but you could do ctrl + h to replace words in word and then paste that into grammarly. Idk that's what I do.
     
  3. Eques

    Eques Translation machine (not)

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    I replace the names/proper names in the raw text (I work in Google docs). Works like a charm.
    upload_2021-12-13_18-42-48.png
    Edit: usually works with MTL-ed chapters too, you can use Word Replacer plugin or something similar.
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