Re: About translating documents (.xml/.sgml) in GNOME



Simon -

It's great that your prodding this issue forward. Thanks.

One important thing is to be sure we've heard from the team at Sun,
which has a lot of docs translations underway. I don't remember which
langauges, so it'd be great to hear from them on this.

Cheers,
John

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 12:54, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am interested in the translation of .xml/.sgml files in GNOME 2.2
> and I would like to ask if:
> 	1. ...the following procedure using sgml2po is ok.
> 	2. ...is there a list of docs to translate first?
> 
> Thanks,
> Simos Xenitellis
> Greek Localisation Team
> 
> RFC: Procedure for translation documentation
> 
> A. I get the latest snapshots (using CVS) of the packages listed on
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/status/gnome-2.1-core/
> checking at the bottom of the page whether to get a branch or not.
> 
> B. Search for .xml/.sgml files in the packages and translate as
> described in 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2001-October/msg00030.html
> but downloading the updated file from GNOME CVS, module 'intltool'.
> 
> C. Files can be found in, and then placed in:
> 
> a. One case (straightforward) is to create your own sub directory in
> 	C/ 
> 	es/
> 	no/
> 
> and place there the translated files. The source of the .sgml/.xml files
> is of course the C/ directory.
> 
> b. In some other cases, the files are in a 'man' subdirectory, such as
> ./gnome-session/man/gnome-smproxy.sgml
> ./gnome-session/man/session-properties-capplet.sgml
> ./gnome-session/man/session-properties.sgml
> 
> [[Need advice on this]]
> 
> 
> simos
> 
> -- 
> Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>
> -- 
> Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>
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