Re: help to translation of application help files

[Pawan Chitrakar <pchitrakar gmail com>]

Thanks a lot .

once the translation is done and merge into xml format how do i test
the translation..

Thanks once again for the help

regards,
pawan

On 7/18/05, Danilo Šegan <danilo gnome org> wrote:
> Yesterday at 9:10, Pawan Chitrakar wrote:
> 
> > i would like to start the translation of manual and help of the
> > application of gnome ..
> 
> Here are the basic guidelines for "oldstyle" modules.
> 
> 1. decide which module you want to translate documentation for
>    (if it's Gnome Users Guide, it's "gnome-user-docs/gnome2-user-guide/C"[1])
> 
> 2. check it out from CVS, i.e. if you use anonymous access:
> 
>      cvs -d:pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome co gnome-user-docs/gnome2-user-guide/C
> 
> 3. generate a POT file using xml2po (part of gnome-doc-utils):
> 
>      cd gnome-user-docs/gnome2-user-guide/C
>      xml2po -o user-guide.pot -e user-guide.xml
> 
> 4. Translate user-guide.pot and save it to eg. "ne.po" (for Nepali)
> 
> 5. Use xml2po again to merge the translation back into XML file:
>      cd gnome-user-docs/gnome2-user-guide/C
>      mkdir ../ne
>      xml2po -p ne.po -e -o ../ne/user-guide.xml user-guide.xml
> 
> 6. create .omf file for you language
> 
> 
> For new gnome-doc-utils style documentation, I'm just working on a
> simple statistics generation page, and it will be much easier for
> anyone to translate documentation by fetching a PO file, and simply
> committing it (almost just like you do for regular translations)—it
> will get regenerated during build of a module, so you need not worry
> about merging it back.
> 
> I'll post a separate announcement once this is ready (note that
> currently, only Bug Buddy is using a new style of documentation
> infrastructure, so we'll need help in switching all the modules to it
> as well).
> 
> Cheers,
> Danilo
> 
> [1] http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-user-docs/gnome2-user-guide/C/
>