Using g-d-u (was: Re: Calling all documentation writers)

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 18/02/2006, at 4:43 AM, Danilo Šegan wrote:

> You've done a great job there, but I wonder one other thing: how would
> you feel about porting User Guide to gnome-doc-utils build stuff?  
> <snip>

This would mean the User Guide would be available in PO form on this  
page:

http://kvota.net/doc-l10n/by-modules.html

?

If so, Joachim, this is a really useful step to take, because it  
means you'll get a lot more translations. We're mostly used to  
translating in PO format, so when docs are only available in Docbook,  
for example, they often don't get translated. (I recently encountered  
a Docbook file needing translation, which defeated all the conversion  
filters, and which I couldn't read in any way. :( )

My translation editor (LocFactoryEditor) now handles XML, including  
Docbook, so does the online translation interface Pootle, but in  
general, open-source translators are used to PO files and will  
translate more if the file is available in that format.

I recently did my first doc. translation, choosing a file on that  
page (Bug-Buddy). It didn't occur to me to look elsewhere. ;)

We translators monitor these status pages very closely, so getting  
your file on the status page gets it a lot more translation attention  
than having it anywhere else.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN