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<H1>[Mageia-i18n] Setting up i18n team</H1>
<B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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<I>Sat Dec 4 13:25:59 CET 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 3 December 2010 20:27, Marek Laane <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-i18n">bald at smail.ee</A>> wrote:
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</I>><i>
</I>><i> 2010/12/3 Wolfgang Bornath <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-i18n">molch.b at googlemail.com</A>>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> 2010/12/3 Marek Laane <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-i18n">bald at smail.ee</A>>:
</I>>><i> >>
</I>>><i> > One point we could discuss is avoiding same path in case of
</I>>><i> > documentation as
</I>>><i> > in Mandriva which rather intimidated translators and IMHO was somehow
</I>>><i> > cumbersome (I never could master neither Borges nor it's successor).
</I>>><i> > Maybe
</I>>><i> > we could adapt e.g. KDE's way: make documentation available in same
</I>>><i> > format
</I>>><i> > as UI, i.e. in PO-files, and use some scripts translating PO to XML and
</I>>><i> > vice
</I>>><i> > versa?
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> As PO is not really usefull for floating text (my personal opinion
</I>>><i> based on my experience with Mandrake/Mandriva manuals, your mileage
</I>>><i> may vary) we do need a collaboraton platform. Yes, Borges was
</I>>><i> something you had to learn to work with but we (Mandrake manual team,
</I>>><i> later NeoDoc.biz) liked it :) There are talks between Anne and Camille
</I>>><i> from NeoDoc about an Account in Calenco. I asked Anne if we could have
</I>>><i> a training account at Calenco to test it. We'll see...
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Of course we will discuss this when the time comes - at the moment too
</I>>><i> many questions are open (what has to go into "official" documentation,
</I>>><i> the one which will be delivered with the distributiona and which
</I>>><i> should be translated into as many languages as possible, then what
</I>>><i> will be in which part of the wiki yet to create, etc.).
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> That's why I postponed the creation of documentation group and
</I>>><i> "doc-translation" group.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> --
</I>>><i> wobo
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Well, yes, as KDE translator my "mileage" really shows it's much more easy
</I>><i> to translate PO-s and then regenerate it as XML (DocBook in KDE) and add
</I>><i> pictures and so on than fuss about in any other format - I've had years ago
</I>><i> even translated Mandriva docs straight in XML but can't say if was great
</I>><i> fun... Another point for PO is that you can have translation memory if you
</I>><i> use Lokalize or some other TM-capable application. But, of course, all that
</I>><i> may be discussable in future...
</I>><i> Marek Laane
</I>><i>
</I>
Hi.
A bit off-topic, when posting to mailing list plain text emails are
much preferred to html (also the text should be wrapped at 72 - 80
columns per line).
--
Ahmad Samir
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