Fate/Strange Fake

[Seika]

Many thanks.

[Ossan99]

Ossan, 83% percent of the time, people are kidding over here.

OK, My role is stupid tricked person. I don't care (^^;.

[Ragnar]

Holy #%$!, you did this in LaTeX? You are truly a god amongst men for wrestling with this.

[Ossan99]

@Ｒagnar
Is LaTeX still survive in western culture? In Japan, LaTeX is almost gone. No one use that.

[Ragnar]

Yeah, LaTeX is used all the time for setting scientific papers, especially with complicated equations or diagrams. I have to start learning it myself in a bit. What do people in Japan use instead?

[Ossan99]

I believe you can read Japanese that you will know current situation of LaTeX in Japan.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
I graduated University long long ago,so I don't know which tool is using at Japanese University.

[nakulas]

The main point the article makes about why LaTeX sees less use in Japan is that there's a lack of LaTeX documentation/manuals/how-tos that is both written in Japanese and easily available on the internet (whereas the same is easily available for Word, OO Writer, etc.). It also mentions a bunch of the standard (language/culture-neutral) reasons for low LaTeX adoption - it's tough to learn, it looks like programming, it isn't WYSIWYG, etc.

It goes on to state that LaTeX is primarily used by academicians working in the physical sciences and related fields (which is pretty much the state of LaTeX over here - only crazy people like me use LaTeX in situations where equation typesetting isn't a necessity). It doesn't mention anything about relative usage compared to other word processors, but I'd believe Ossan99's claim that it has relatively diminished usage in Japan compared to here (though this is a little bit surprising seeing as I seem to remember that a lot [relatively] of common LaTeX packages were written by Japanese people).

Nice thing about LaTeX is that now that I've done this once, future light novel translations will be a breeze on the layout/typesetting side since I can basically drop my F/sf style files back in and reuse them. Honestly, the initial reason I decided to use LaTeX for this is that I hate the way indentation looks in Microsoft Word; of course, I found a bunch of other valuable features along the way that I hadn't encountered/needed in my science-related work (toggles; TikZ; etc.).

[LordCha]

Thanks.

[nakulas]

Have any of you guys been keeping up with any announcements about new Fate/strange fake stuff? I saw the PV from the Type-Moon event a couple months ago, which had an announcement about novel(s) and manga(s) being released this winter, but I was wondering if you folks were aware of any more specifics.

In any case, I suspect I'll be translating any new F/sf novels Narita puts out, time permitting.

[You]

Bosel's blog has viruses for some reason. Any info would be there but I don't remember seeing anything new.

[Fiery Knight]

Apologize in advance if this is the wrong part to ask;

Anyone here know about the manga translations? This is the light novel, but I am curios to read the manga version instead. Thanks!

[Crown]

There is only the prologue Reiu translated. You're better off checking this thread for news btw.

[Reiu]

Now that Pai released his scans, if enough people are interested in the manga only and/or don't mind reading two translations of one thing (I'd be retranslating it myself instead of using nakulas's translations), I might pick it up.

Nothing against nakulas, that's just how I roll.

[Kat]

I don't certainly mind

[Megas]

.....if you're feeling up to it

(Personally would prefer Extra CCC though, just saying)

[Reiu]

.....if you're feeling up to it

(Personally would prefer Extra CCC though, just saying)

CCC is in an option too, yes. Though I'd really prefer to do a proper patch instead of just a Let's Play, so here's to hoping someone with the technical know-how shows up...one day.

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Mostly because I absolutely hate formatting with all the different sprite icons. It's extraneous work that my compulsiveness won't let me forego.

[Megas]

CCC is in an option too, yes. Though I'd really prefer to do a proper patch instead of just a Let's Play, so here's to hoping someone with the technical know-how shows up...one day.

......the code's probably in JP isn't it.

We need to get those guys from the type-0 project don't we?

[Crown]

Now that Pai released his scans, if enough people are interested in the manga only and/or don't mind reading two translations of one thing (I'd be retranslating it myself instead of using nakulas's translations), I might pick it up.

Nothing against nakulas, that's just how I roll.

Do it.

[Rokudaime]

I for one would certainly appreciate it a lot, since I'm never going to read the LN (because I don't read those), but would love to read the manga. Where would I go to keep track of the scanlations as they come out (if you decide to do them) btw? Here, or the discussion thread? Somewhere else?

[Mcjon01]

I for one would certainly appreciate it a lot, since I'm never going to read the LN (because I don't read those), but would love to read the manga. Where would I go to keep track of the scanlations as they come out (if you decide to do them) btw? Here, or the discussion thread? Somewhere else?

The manga only comes out once a year, so it shouldn't be too hard to keep up with it. Just put a note on your fridge to remember to start bugging translators about it again every Christmas.