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== Career ==

Leadbetter’s career began when he was [[apprentice|apprenticed]] as a carpenter in 1719, and he worked for the next decade or so as a [[journeyman]] carpenter. By 1731 he had settled in Eton, marrying Elizabeth Hill (b. c.1709), daughter of a London timber merchant; and he worked as carpenter to [[Eton College]] from 1740. Leadbetter leased Eton College Wharf as his principal home and workshop from 1744. He was employed as a builder in his own right by the 1740s, and in the following two decades he worked both as a designer but primarily as a builder of many new country houses, hospitals and speculative urban development. In 1756 Leadbetter was appointed as surveyor of [[St Paul’s Cathedral]], and through this position also gained many ecclesiastical commissions.

Many of his buildings were built within a close distance of Eton.

<blockquote>He was an innovative and possibly influential planner at a time when the design of the British country house was undergoing rapid change. His country houses, though plain in their interior and external detail, are imaginative, varied, and above all practical in their planning.<ref>ODNB</ref> </blockquote>

As a builder he carried out the designs of other architects, notably [[Robert Adam]] and [[James Stuart (1713-1788)|James Stuart]].

Leadbetter’s patron was [[Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin|Francis Godolphin]], second earl of Godolphin, and through him, Leadbetter was introduced to and employed by the dukes of Portland, Marlborough, and Bedford, the countesses of Essex and Pomfret, Lord Foley, Admiral Boscawen, Sir John Elvill, and others.

== Personal life ==
Leadbetter and his wife Elizabeth had five children in their six or seven years of marriage, before Elizabeth died in 1737. Four of Leadbetter’s children died before him.

== Buildings designed and/or built by Leadbetter (incomplete list) ==
*[[Elvills]], Surrey
*[[Fulham Palace]]
*[[Hatchlands Park]]
*[[Langley Park (Buckinghamshire|Langley Park]]
*[[Newton Park]], Newton St Loe
*[[Nuneham House]]
*[[Radcliffe Infirmary|Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford]]
*[[Shardeloes]]

== References ==
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== Sources ==
*Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) entry by Giles Worsley

== External links ==
*[http://www.minervaconservation.com/projects/bathspa.html Newton Park, Newton St Loe]
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinday/1101089077/ Langley Park]

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”’Virtaal”’ is a [[computer-assisted translation]] tool written in the [[Python (programming language)|Python programming language]]. It is [[free software]] developed and maintained by [[Translate.org.za]].

Virtaal is built using the [[Translate Toolkit]] allowing it to process a number of translation and localisation formats.

== Design Philosophy ==

The key principles behind the design of Virtaal are the optimisation of the interface for the localiser. This includes ensuring that all functionality is keyboard accessible and that needed information is always optimally displayed.

== History ==

Work on Virtaal began in 2007 with an initial 0.1 release made to a small number of open source localisers. Version 0.2, released in October 2008, became the first official release.

== Name ==

The name Virtaal is a play on words. In Afrikaans, an official language of South Africa where Translate.org.za is located, the expression ‘vir taal’ means ‘for language’. While the word ‘vertaal’ means ‘translate’. The Virtaal logo includes the expression ‘for language’ leading to recursive statement ‘virtaal is for language’.

== Supported source document formats ==

Virtaal works directly with any of the bilingual (containing both source and target langauge) files understood by the [[Translate Toolkit]]. This would include [[XLIFF]], [[Gettext]] PO and MO, various [[Qt]] files (.qm, .ts, .qph), [[Wordfast]] translation memory, [[TBX]] and [[TMX]]

== Features ==

* Simple single view interface
* Searching
* Modes – translate incomplete items or the whole file

== See also ==

* [[Computer-assisted translation|Computer-assisted Translation]]

== External links ==
* [http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/index Virtaal home] – Official Virtaal web site
* [http://pootle.locamotion.org/projects/virtaal Localisation of Virtaal]
* {{Ohloh project|id=virtaal}}
* IRC [irc://irc.freenode.net/#pootle developer channel] on freenode

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