Re: [jokosher-devel] German translation and documentation stuff

["Jeff Ratliff" <jefrat gmail com>]

On 12/07/06, Dennis Lichtenthäler <dennis lichtenthaeler episode-iv de> wrote:
> Fellow Jokosher-Fanboys!
> As promised on the LUGRadio forums, I got to work and started translating some
> of the quite excellent Jokosher Documentation. The German versions of the FAQ,
> the Intro/Walkthrough and the User Guide are already done and as of yesterday
> have entered the wiki.
I am very impressed. These will be a good addition to the documentation.

> While writing all this, I occasionally ran into a problem with finding
> appropriate names for certain UI elements. While reading the User Guide, I
> tried hard to figure out what the "Time Scale" (which now is called "Time
> Line") was and was only successful after eliminating all the other elements...
This is mostly my fault. When writing the User Guide I had to make up
names for things I didn't know, then the mailing list died before I
could get confirmation. I actually have a screen shot with all the
parts labelled to go in the User Guide, but again with no mailing list
and no SVN access there's no way to make that available.

I agree some definition of non-obvious terms is necessary, but I'm not
sure how this is generally handled. I eventually settled on the term
"Time Line" versus "Time Scale" because that's what the programmers
call it.

When I get a full set of screenshots done, everything will be
labelled, so that might help.

> As I said, it's probably too early to be thinking about all this but I think
> it would make a lot of sense, especially when translating not only the
> documentation but Jokosher itself somewhen.
Again thanks for the help. Any contribution you have on how
translation can be bettter handled is welcome

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Jeff Ratliff (Gomer_X)