Make eight decisions before translating
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Who is reading, and why?
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Which language and region?
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Who narrates, and in which tense?
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How formal and how fast?
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How do characters address each other?
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How is dialogue punctuated?
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What may change?
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Where will you review?
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A complete example in SEKA’s four fields
Copy these fields manually into the style editor and adapt them to your book. This is a text worksheet, not an import file. Goal and execution requirements each allow 2,000 Unicode characters.

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Style: “keep replies brief”. Glossary: a specific name or title and its chosen translation. Keep the two records separate.

Keep a review record
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Do any rules contradict each other?
Replace vague “natural and fluent” instructions with observable choices.
Move fixed terms to a glossary.
Remove details the source does not support.

Use your brief in SEKA
Sign in, create a style in the style library, and save the four fields.
Prepare one file you may translate. In translation settings, actively select this style for that task; it is not automatically applied to later tasks.
On the translation page, check the file, language and options, then review the required Credits before confirming payment. One task uses one style; its style is locked once translation starts.
Review the opening, dialogue and a late passage. Record issues and revise settings for a future task; editing a saved style does not update a running task.