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Originally Posted by mrmikel
Looks like a hard project to me. If you were using something other than an epub, then maybe you could hover over a word in Gaelic and the balloon would have English.
If the paragraphs are short enough, you might do alternating, but it would rely on the person having a pretty good idea of Gaelic in the first place. Such a person would likely be finicky about your translation and where would you be then? Not with them thinking of continuing to read, but picking at arguable details.
It makes my current project of transcribing a PDF with half page footnotes look like a walk in the park.
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I don't think I can express adequately how difficult this would be. We've looked at projects like this more than a few times, and essentially turned the work away. It can be done with something like Azardi or Readium (someone over there is, in fact, working on something like this right now; it's mentioned on one of their homepages; a book that does this very thing.)
I don't know how it can be done, in any realistic (and affordable) way, for ePUB2 and the existing available readers, even iBooks. Sorry to be a downer, but...I just don't see it working, given everything (
unless you do the entire book as fixed-format. THAT, of course, would work).
Hitch