Thread:Mistelone/@comment-4784862-20150511231837

I'd say it might not be a bad idea to put your translation notes at the end of the day, unelss it's only like...one or two brief things to mention.

Also, I'd like to make a suggestion...when you go to work on a chapter, I'm guessing you're pulling the raws from http://remonster.reans.ca/pages/day/156.php and its other days.

On there, often times when there's stuff in the asdf there's also katakana in "Ruby" above them. These are how it's supposed to be written, despite what the items mean. There's a good example in Day 155:

“木精至鋼ダマスカス”

If you were to just translate it as it is, it would be something like: "Spirit Tree Supreme Steel Damascus" or something along those lines. However, how it actually is in the raws is this:

“ 木精至鋼ダマスカス”

As you can see, the ダマスカス which is "Damascus" is in what's known as "Ruby/Rubi" on top of the kanji, and what this effectively means for us is that, regardless of the meaning of the kanji it's below, it should be 'read' as Damascus, which means we should more or less completely disregard (unless we need it for context somehow) the kanji beneath it. The same was true for the "Brandy Brawn" skill that was used in Day 148. It's also why we call job skills "Arts" instead of "Battle Techniques." ^^

Anyway, my suggestion would be...when you start translating a day...glance over the raw on the website and pick out any of the words that have the ruby over them and either translate them before hand...or remove the kanji that's beneath them, so that it doesn't affect the translations.

In my case, I replace that stuff right in the raw with the english version, heh. 