Richie Nyhus wrote : Hasn't the core dev team already cast their veto against automatic/machine translation in favour of Manual translation?
that's why OmegaT is a good solution. It does a MANUAL translation ( but with several kind of aid). OmegaT handles the layout for you. It encourages you to keep the structure of the source document, and you concentrate on your text. Here the OmegatT screenn capture : http://starsseed.free.fr/doc/ScreenOmegaT.PNG