How do I turn off the translation monster?

I was using the Translate function to translate the Latin in Ott, Ludwig. Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma. St. Louis: B. Herder Book Company, 1957. when I made the mistake of clicking on "more". Now it insists on showing me all the text in the translate window and I can't find a way to turn it off. Even closing and reopening the book doesn't reset it. How to I tell the translation monster know it is time to be quiet - to translate only selected text?

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Mark McDonald

I think you need to deselect the "sidebar" icon, just to the left of the Panel Menu icon.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1251729#Comment_1251729

The problem is that when I reopen it, it is still in the translate everything mode.

Mark McDonald

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1251732#Comment_1251732

If you've closed the translation window before closing the volume and then it re-opens with the translation window showing, I think you've found a bug.

Andrew Batishko

How to I tell the translation monster know it is time to be quiet - to translate only selected text?

The expected behavior is that if you don't have anything selected, it will translated the paragraph at the top of the view. So, it sounds like you are seeing the expected behavior. If it wasn't doing this prior to clicking "more", then there is probably a bug preventing it from working as intended.

As a workaround, you could make sure that you leave some text selected. Then it won't keep changing the translation as you scroll.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1251768#Comment_1251768

Does that mean that all the English to English translation is counting against my monthly maximum?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1251768#Comment_1251768

Does that mean that all the English to English translation is counting against my monthly maximum?

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1251801#Comment_1251801

Does that mean that all the English to English translation is counting against my monthly maximum?

It does appear that is currently the case. I'm not clear on why that would be so. For now, if you are concerned about using up your monthly maximum, then close the sidebar when not in use.

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1251805#Comment_1251805

I'm not clear on why that would be so.

The reason for this is that the language tagging in our resources is not always sufficient for short strings (individual words and phrases). If we didn't attempt to translate the text, then we wouldn't correctly translate these.

We'll consider the idea of only doing the English => English translation on selection.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1251813#Comment_1251813

Thanks Andrew

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1251813#Comment_1251813

The reason for this is that the language tagging in our resources is not always sufficient for short strings (individual words and phrases). If we didn't attempt to translate the text, then we wouldn't correctly translate these.

You don't - see untranslated Latin (yellow box) which was correctly translated when selected,

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1251842#Comment_1251842

Thanks. I've passed that along.