john,

Good point! Apologies! Long ago, when I sent those to Alistair, I had scanned the articles and then did the conversion to text with my Optical Character Recognition Program OmniPro. I then rebuilt the papers as images and text into a doc file. Because of size and Mac/PC cross platform issues, I sent Alistair a .pdf version. I apparently sent him the original scans instead. I'll go back to my files and see if I can locate the text and image version. At one point, several years ago, when engine design and conversion issue were rampant upon the list, another list member, very fluent in both English and German, was going to translate the articles for all to read! Unfortunately, time commitments must have interfered and the project did not come to pass.

Chagrined,

Frank Grunthaner

-----Original Message-----
From: John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 6:27 am
Subject: Re: The real story about the invention of the WBX? - Anybody want the facts?

> It's so true! I have translated several of the design articles for the TDi
engines and will probably ask Alistair to post them as well. After a few runs
through Babelfish, I find myself writing in long sentences with segregated nouns
verbs and bonded adjectivals - while purported trying to compose in English.
Nonetheless, I would point out to the list that the figures in the texts are in
a universal language.

How did you get babelfish to translate a scan of a document xontaining
no text data? I'm guessing the lack of comment on the 1.9 and 2.1
design documents is because few of us read german.

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John Bange
'90 Vanagon - "Lastwagen"
'90 Vanagon GL - "Wiesel"