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This is really awesome, I absolutely love it. I've been trying to read dual text books in Polish and I did have the problem of Polish sentences being about 500
by nkkollaw 9y ago
This is really awesome, I absolutely love it.
I've been trying to read dual text books in Polish and I did have the problem of Polish sentences being about 500 times longer than English. Personally, I solved it parsing the text for paragraphs and realining everything with shorter sentences.
Your solution definitely works better.
In case you're looking for feedback, I wouldn't use color as it both looks highlighted, and wouldn't allow highlighting. How about a 1px black outline to differenciate?
- davidzweig 9y agoThanks! Previously, when making materials for my own use, I used to put the paste the texts into spreadsheets, with one sentence per line/cell. It works well. This layout is only used for printed books (at the moment). Without the color it looks more elegant, it's true. I'll try the outline.
- nkkollaw 9y ago> Previously, when making materials for my own use, I used to put the paste the texts into spreadsheets, with one sentence per line/cell. It works well. Yup. I created a script that would parse paragraphs, and create an HTML table automatically, with one row/sentence. This way at least you know where you are in the sentence :-) Are you interested in language learning, or was this a one-time project? I have a crazy project in mind, if you'd be interested in joining forces perhaps it would be more feasible to do it.
- davidzweig 9y agoI've got a lot of language projects. The latest one is a very low-cost, programmable audio player (no screen even, but lots of buttons and colored LEDs). You create non-linear, interactive materials. I was going to make another 'Show HN' when I have the firmware ready. Send me an email (on my profile), I'm interested to hear your idea.