Tutorial translations: switching to xml2po
by Colin Marquardt
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.
15 years, 7 months
Re: [Inkscape-translator] [Inkscape-docs] Fwd: Re: How to help
by Alexandre Prokoudine
On 9/21/07, radar.map35 wrote:
> None, but recent feature since 0.44 should be quite well updated.
Even earlier: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes040
already provided detailed information, though not in copy'n'paste
form.
> And the question is : do they need to match exactly ? In gimp-doc-team,
> they have leave that point of view, because it was simply to hard to
> maintain.
Well, you see --- I for my part prefer dealing with fuzzy status of
messages instead of pure XML diffs, especially when you have mulitple
source files, but that's just IMO :)
What I'm more interested in right now is whether we split content into
chapters, since we still will be able to use PO, as Colin says.
Alexandre
16 years
