Re: Translating DocBook files

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

>From my translating experience, this is not too useful. When translating,
often  you have to move things around - and it means you have to move  DocBook
tags, too. You can't translate word-for-word - or  even tag-for-tag.   Anyway,
I always find it easier to translate the text as a whole, not as a sequence of
independent pieces - and a  .po file is exactly a sequence of independent
bits.  So I just used my favorite text editor (emacs) using split view: in one
buffer the original English document, in the other buffer the translation. In
the beginning the second one is just a copy of the original but then I start
replacing English with Russian.

Sasha


Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> > John Fleck <jfleck@inkstain.net> writes:
> [...]
> > > Jonathan Blandford and Daniel Veillard whipped a tool to do the .po
> > > thing last fall, though Jonathan sez it wasn't ever really tested:
> > >
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2001-October/msg00030.html
> >
> > This could be really useful, though I think it may need some more love.
> > I'd love to see our docs fully translated.
>
> I had forgotten all about this, although it caused a bit of noise at the
> time. I have grabbed the code and will look at it tonight and see how
> it applies to a random largish document.
>
> Malcolm
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