Keywords within translation
in the age of information technology

text expansion

An increase in the length of the target text as compared to the source text.

The problem of text expansion must be anticipated by the graphic artist wishing to use the same page format for both the source text and the translation.

This problem also arises when translating texts for software screen features, where the space reserved for a text is usually extremely limited (e.g. Print -> Imprimer).  

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