Re: Translation of gnome user guide / FAQ files

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

tor 2003-10-30 klockan 12.45 skrev Jatin Nansi:
> As per step 2 of http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/tasks.html - to 
> translate gnome to a language - i need to translate general user 
> documents - which includes The GNOME User's Guide and the GNOME User 
> FAQ. But I could not find any documented method which I can follow to 
> translate these to another language.

This is unfortunately true, possibly because not many translators are
currently also translating docs. Some heroes are working on DocBook<->PO
tools though to make this process easier.


> I have seen that these documents are primarily displayed in yelp and are 
> found in /usr/share/gnome/help on my RH9 system. These are all in XML 
> and inter - hyperlinked.
> 
> My problem is that its going to be very troublesome to translate these 
> XML files in a regular text editor. So is there any simpler method for 
> this job ?

At the moment, no, not AFAIK.


> Also - how will these translations be organised on the disk ? The 
> english documents are in /usr/share/gnome/help/user-guide/C. So is the C 
> directory the locale and Japanese (for example) will be stored in 
> /usr/share/gnome/help/user-guide/ja ?

That is correct.
gnome-doc-list@gnome.org
(http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list/) is probably a
better list to discuss stuff that are more related to docs than
translations, however.


Christian