Letters to the Editor

Volume 2, No. 4
October 1998

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July ’97 Issue

October ’97 Issue

January ’98 Issue

April ’98 Issue

July ’98 Issue

	A Unique Medium by Gabe Bokor
	Index 1997-98
	Translator Profiles
	May Your Neurons Never Get Tired of Your Challenges by Steve Vlasta Vitek
	The Profession
	The Bottom Line by Fire Ant & Worker Bee
	The Business of Translating Danilo Nogueira
	Literary Translation
	Translating Poetry/The Work of Arthur Rimbaud from French to English by Michael Walker
	Art & Entertainment
	Translator, a Lovely Profession by Karin Almegård Nörby/Monica Scheer
	Fernsehuntertitelung in Flandern by Luc Ockers
	Biomedical Translation
	Immunology—a Brief Overview, Part 2 by Lúcia M. Singer, Ph.D.
	Science & Technology
	A Translator’s Guide to Organic Chemical Nomenclature XIII by Chester E. Claff, Jr., Ph.D.
	Caught in the Web
	Web Surfing for Fun and Profit by Cathy Flick, Ph.D.
	Translators’ On-Line Resources by Gabe Bokor
	Translators’ Events
	Letters to the Editor
	Call for Papers

Letters to the Editor

I am writing you this note to let you know how impressed I am with your on-line newsletter for translators, which I have just had the pleasure of reading for the first time. Needless to say, your site is now bookmarked—it is one of the finest translation resources that I have ever seen.
Just wanted to thank you for those efforts, and for the wonderful contribution to the translation community!

—Rina Ne'eman, E. Brunswick, NJ, USA

The latest issue of the Translation Journal is superb (as usual). Congratulations. .
I wanted to ask why most of the articles end up with odd HTML symbols, which I then have to convert for reading as text. .
The problematic ones (i.e., the ones my browser—Lynx—passes thru unconverted) are:

   should be  '
   sb  - -
   sb  "
   sb  "

   Odd also because in several years of cruising the Net with the text browser Lynx, your pages are the only ones with these oddities. .
    There are no such troubles when I use Netscape 3.0, but I use it less often because I have restricted PPP access to the Net. Most of the time I use the local freenet, which is text-based. .
    Muchas gracias. Que pases bien.

—Germán Pareja, Vancouver BC, Canada

Editor’s Answer: Unlike most Web sites (but like most quality paper publications), the Translation Journal uses real (“curly”) quotation marks and apostrophes instead of inch- and footmarks, and m-dashes instead of two hyphens. The coding used to generate these symbols appears correctly with the major browsers in use today (Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer and their variants). We cannot, however, make sure that these and some other codes and formatting will be supported by all browsers, in particular older and text-based browsers. We reckon (and our survey shows) that such browsers are only used by a very small minority of Web surfers. We would like, however to hear from others who have experienced similar difficulties to see if we should change our policies.

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