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

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

> 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
> 

The Sun-supported languages for 2.0 are - de, fr, it, sv, es, pl, ru, ja, ko, 
zh_CN, zh_TW, and pt_BR. We will probably add Arabic and Hebrew to this for
2.2. The language packages will be available in about one month. 

Pat





> 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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