Translation of Markdown (MD) files

[tderflinger]

Hi DeepL,

your Python library is great. Since I am using your library to translate some of my articles of my blog, I would like to inform you of some issues. My articles are in the markdown format (. md). When I translate markdown files I often encounter that DeepL does not preserve the formatting. Sometimes, parts of the sentence are repeated in the target language (I suppose because of a new line in the original document). I tried different settings in the Python library but none got it completely right.

Therefore, I would like to ask you to look into making translation of markdown documents better. I am sure this problem also encounter other people, and especially for technical programming documents and websites, markdown is often used. These clients would also benefit hugely from your improvements.

BTW: GitHub has a spec of their own flavor of markdown here: https://github.github.com/gfm/

Thanks! :)

[daniel-jones-deepl]

Hi Thomas, thank you for the feedback.

Our translation software does not currently support translating Markdown. Our translation models might sometimes preserve the correct formatting, but it is not fully reliable.

We’ve had requests for Markdown translation from other users too, and it is something we want to look into. As a first step we could publish example code to translate Markdown files on the client side.

I’ll let you know when I have an update in future.

[brycepg]

Any updates on this? I'm running into an issue with the following text:

3. **École du Bempt**

Translates to:

3. **Bempt School

The translation strips the trailing aterisks.

This is even the case with "preserve_formatting": True, in the API call to https://api.deepl.com/v2/translate