August 2007 - Inkscape Translators

Tutorial translations: switching to xml2po
by Colin Marquardt 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

Hi, is there anyone who objects using xml2po for the tutorial translations? See http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/DocumentationTranslation for the process. With xml2po, translators would get regular po files to translate, with all the positive effects (no manual looking for string changes; more dedicated tools than for Docbook; familiarity of amny translators with the format; translator credits for free (even though we don't pull them yet for the About box); strings from included images are in the same file; the Gnome people are using it; and probably some more). I am using xml2po for the German translation since pre-0.45, and it worked quite well so far. I have started automating the conversion process to HTML/SVG (to the then intermediate Docbook XML) in SVN. So if there are no valid objections overriding the plusses, I will soon start converting all translated Docbook XML files to the po format. Please submit any translated XML files that are not yet in SVN. I think now is a good time to tackle that process, considering that 0.46 is probably a while but not too far away, and there are quite some efforts going into tutorials recently (thanks Ryan :). Cheers Colin PS: I'm cmarqu on IRC.

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splitting messages
by Alexandre Prokoudine 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hi, As you probably know gettext apps merge same translatable messages into one msgid to save translators a fair amount of time. But in some cases this behavior is not desirable, becase one English word should be translated differently. I've come across one such case today: src/filter-enums.cpp:51 (Blend mode: Normal) src/ui/dialog/inkscape-preferences.cpp:439 (Dialogs on top: Normal) Do you know of other such cases, so we could make a list and separate them in source code? Alexandre

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translation not working
by Alexandre Prokoudine 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hi, As of revision 15936 I'm experiencing a quite weird thing: part of translated messages doesn't show up as translated. On this screenshot you see bottom part of Fill and Stroke dialog. http://img27.picoodle.com/img/img27/9/8/29/f_messagesm_281ac67.png "_Blend mode" (Режим) and "B_lur" (Размывание) show up as translated (coming from src/ui/widget/filter-effect-chooser.cpp), but names of blend modes (src/filter-enums.cpp) like "Screen" --- don't. Same thing with names of live path effects. They reside in src/live_effects/effects.cpp and being translated still don't show up as such. Any idea why? Am I doing something silly? Alexandre

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Marró amb la traducció catalana d'NSIS
by Xavier Conde Rueda 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Bones, no se si us n'heu assabentat, però l'NSIS no porta més el català degut a una baralla entre catalanistes i valencianistes: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1558822&group_id=2… Això afecta a alguns dels nostres projectes; en el cas de l'Inkscape faran servir la nostra traducció d'NSIS per generar els paquets amb català. -- Google talk/Jabber: xavi.conde a gmail.com

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weird bug
by Alexandre Prokoudine 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hi, I swear I've seen such a bug before. Can anybody confirm this on most recent SVN trunk? http://img02.picoodle.com/img/img02/9/8/27/f_weirdm_17a753d.png This is for Tweak tool. I can reproduce it by switching to the new tool by W, then shrinking the window horizontally and clicking the button to show me hidden toolbar options. Alexandre

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Questions about some terms
by Xavier Conde Rueda 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

Hi all, I'm having some trouble with translationg some of the new terms appearing on Inkscape. I suppose other people have the same doubts, too. Any suggestion on the meaning of the following terms? #: ../src/flood-context.cpp:993 msgid "Draw over areas to add to fill, hold Alt for touch fill" msgstr "" touch fill? #: ../src/select-context.cpp:537 msgid "" "Drag around objects to select them; press Alt to switch to " "touch selection" msgstr "" touch selection? #: ../src/widgets/toolbox.cpp:2205 msgid "Toggle VP in X direction" msgstr "" VP? #. Width #: ../src/widgets/toolbox.cpp:2628 msgid "(hairline)" msgstr "" #. Thinning #: ../src/widgets/toolbox.cpp:2643 msgid "(speed blows up stroke)" msgstr "" speed blows up stroke? #: ../src/widgets/toolbox.cpp:2689 msgid "(slightly bulging)" msgstr "" bulging? #: ../src/widgets/toolbox.cpp:2689 msgid "(long protruding caps)" msgstr "" long protruding caps? #. Wiggle #: ../src/widgets/toolbox.cpp:2721 msgid "(no wiggle)" msgstr "" wiggle? #: ../src/widgets/toolbox.cpp:2736 msgid "(noticeable lagging)" msgstr "" lagging? Many thanks in advance for your help! -- Google talk/Jabber: xavi.conde a gmail.com

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Tutorial xml2po conversion done
by Colin Marquardt 18 Aug '07

18 Aug '07

Hi, the conversion of the tutorial translations to PO format is done. (There are a few small things left, but the large task is finished). I'll now work on polishing the Makefile support and documenting the translation flow. Cheers Colin

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PO files for tutorials ready for an update
by Colin Marquardt 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Hi all, the tutorial translations (now in PO format) are ready for an update. You can find them in the doc-docbook module, or at http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/doc-docbook/trunk/ There are only a few strings to handle in each tutorial. Since the strings in illustrations are also included in the po file, *you only need to work on the po files!* http://oerks.net/~colin/alltutorials/ has the current status in HTML and SVG versions. Please post updates to the SourceForge tracker or send them directly to me, I will then create HTML and SVG. See also http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/DocumentationTranslation#Tutorial_T… Tanks Colin

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