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Translate a Quarto book chapter

Source: R/translate-quarto.R
deepl_translate_quarto.Rd

This assumes the book is set up à la babelquarto.

Usage

deepl_translate_quarto(
  book_path,
  chapter,
  force = FALSE,
  render = TRUE,
  yaml_fields = c("title", "description"),
  glossary_name = NULL,
  source_lang = NULL,
  target_lang = NULL,
  formality = c("default", "more", "less", "prefer_more", "prefer_less")
)

Arguments

book_path

Path to book source

chapter

Chapter name

force

Whether to overwrite the chapter in the target language.

render

Whether to run babelquarto::render_bool() after translation.

yaml_fields

Vector of character names of YAML fields to translate.

glossary_name

Name of the glossary to be used, if any (character).

source_lang

Name or code of source language. See DeepL docs.

target_lang

Name or code of source language. See DeepL docs.

formality

Formality level to use (character), one of

  • "default" (default)

  • "less" – for a more informal language

  • "prefer_more" – for a more formal language if available, otherwise fallback to default formality

  • "prefer_less" – for a more informal language if available, otherwise fallback to default formality

Value

None

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
temp_dir <- withr::local_tempdir()
babelquarto::quarto_multilingual_book(
  parent_dir = temp_dir,
  book_dir = "blop",
  main_language = "en",
  further_languages = "es"
)
book_path <- file.path(temp_dir, "blop")
deepl_translate_quarto(
  book_path = book_path,
  chapter = "intro.qmd",
  force = TRUE, # the existing chapter is a placeholder
  render = TRUE,
  source_lang = "EN",
  target_lang = "ES",
  formality = "less"
)
# have a look at the translation
readLines(file.path(book_path, "intro.es.qmd"))
# servr::httw(file.path(book_path, "_book"))
} # }