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Thread poster: engrus
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for wording of English-Chinese Sep 9, 2003

Usually for 1000 English words, there will be about 1600-1800 Chinese words to get things understood. So, we make pricing as per 1000 Chinese or English. Seldom with a concept of line price. Eastern language is a little different from Western style.
 
eurodep
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pricing per target line Oct 22, 2003

One question related to this, what about a client that wants pricing 'per line in the target language'? All the math aside, (which I fully understand is characters with spaces / 55 = lines), but a client wants to see the quote in target lines? Doesn't this naturally beg me to be as long winded as possible? Doesn't make sense, anyone with experience?
 
Fernando Toledo
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Spain
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What? Dec 11, 2003

You can use a bigger monitor

is no a matter of size but of times you have to use your fingers.

If you tap 55 times your keyboard than you get 1 point!

Carolyn Denoncourt wrote:

There is a problem with saying a line has about 55 characters. Formerly this worked well with typewriter text, but with word processing today, a font can be proportionally spaced and fit sometimes 25% more characters per line. I suggest that if you must give a price per line, you state the font that will be used in the final text which will be priced by the line. A Courrier font may be best because it is not proportionally spaced and will be the most consistent from one line to the next.
 
Fernando Toledo
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And what about Trados analysis? Dec 11, 2003

How can I use the Trados analysis to quote in lines in the target language?


ddepman wrote:

One question related to this, what about a client that wants pricing 'per line in the target language'? All the math aside, (which I fully understand is characters with spaces / 55 = lines), but a client wants to see the quote in target lines? Doesn't this naturally beg me to be as long winded as possible? Doesn't make sense, anyone with experience?
 
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