On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:04:01 +0100, Lübbe Onken <l.onken@rac.de> wrote:
> I was also thinking about ways to improve the translation of the docs. I
> have to admit, that I'm hanging behind with the German docs, because it's
> not easy to spot sections that need translation.
I know - I kept all of Simons commit mails to the docs so I can spot
what need's to be done. Not quite the best way to go...
[snip]
> I see two possible options:
>
> 1) We could go the GIMP way, split up the docs into lots of smaller sections
> which contain all languages.
> + Structure will automatically be consistent
> + Reference Ids (Xref) will automatically be consistent.
> + Fallback to english if a section is untranslated.
> - no easy spotting of untranslated sections.
> - changes to english docs necessary (single source for all languages).
> - lot of work to get the first (German) translation up and running again.
- with many languages, you'll have big files where you have to scroll
a lot to find your language.
> 2) We could go the KDE way and split up the English documentation into po
> files, which we then translate and merge back into Language X.
> + Structure will automatically be consistent.
> + Reference Ids (Xref) will automatically be consistent.
> + Easy spotting of untranslated sections (poEdit), Translation status on Web
> page.
> + no changes to the english docs necessary.
> + easy to create Docs in another Language.
> + Fallback to english is automatically given if a section isn't translated.
> - lot of work to get the first (German) translation up and running again.
> - (just a guess) translators work out of context, because they only see
> single paragraphs and not the entire section at a time.
I like that way!
Just a couple questions:
- how to generate the po files from the xml doc files?
- how to generate the xml files from the po files again
- the tools to do that must be able to run on windows, otherwise I
won't be able to build the chm docs
Stefan
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