Script to translate a quarto doc and output to a new language

[DOH-FAA3303]

Description

I'm sure someone else has done this, but if not, here's a workflow for translating the language of your quarto doc. I loved what @maelle created here and I was hoping this workflow could work in conjunction with the babelquarto package to do the actual translating and creation of the language qmd files.

here is the blog post summarizing everything

summary

• I made a simple package that uses hugging face transformers where the user can input a pre-trained (and free) translation model.
• I'm using the awesome lightparser package to parse a qmd
• I translate the text of the qmd using the hugging face transformer
• Then lightparser does the work convert the translated dataframe back into a new qmd file

the qmd on the left gets translated to spanish on the right - 🔥

edit- i'm aware that babeldown can do the translating for you, but it requires a DeepL api. I wasn't able to utilize their free api without creating an account and adding a credit card. Plus, they have limits to their free api. I wanted to try and simplify things by using hugging face transformers and avoiding any credit card hassle.

[edenian-prince]

woops! i made this from the wrong github account and cant recreate the post :( if you want to collaborate or have a question, this is my personal github account. feel free to message!