Re: Translations inside of SVG files

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 08:51 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote:
> > Actually we already have some translated SVGs in the current Getting
> > Started documentation. It doesn't use the systemLanguage attribute,
> > they're "just" considered as XML files and itstool does the job of
> > extracting strings to a po file, and merging them back, creating one
> > SVG file per language.
> >
> > An example is here: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.10/gs-goa3.svg.es
> >
> > It's not perfect as it duplicates the files, and it currently requires
> > the SVG files to be declared in HELP_FILES and be in the same
> > directory as Mallard pages, but those are minor issues in my opinion.
>
> Yay, great!
>
> Could I have found out myself somehow (URL)?

I don't think so, this is only used in gnome-getting-started-docs and
I added support for that to library-web after you left the hackfest.


> Is this something to cover in an advanced section on
> https://wiki.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Screenshots ?

I am not the one to tell, it's certainly more work for the
documentation team at first (creating a SVG instead of taking a
screenshot[1]), however I believe this wouldn't only benefit
translators, as the figures do not need to be retaken whenever the
theme change, or to adapt to theme changes done by distributors.


        Fred