I am very positive surprised that more people are interested in this project, than I thought! Some even offer actual help! That is very encouraging for me - I hope that will not get against me when I confess that I might not just do a word-by-word translation but also get some proposals for a general review. Actually I would have wanted to have some more stuff done in order to show what i mean - but may be it is a good time to discuss some basics for my doing already now.
I got the idea by doing a lot of ATC-ing now in EDDF - and noticed that many people would like to fly in a more "orderly conduct" - but lack the possibility to learn it. Especially also most of the very young (who first get really mad if somebody tries to tell them what to do) get interested very much after doing/watching some ATC-guided patterns. But they need some advise why, what, how - to be read in a "small book" in their language - most of the Youngsters do not speak English (yet). Most of them have no idea how nice it can be to learn in a C172 - instead of just switching on AP in a 747! While translating the "getstart" I checked some references etc - and got the idea that several parts are a little outdated or new developments are merged in without rewriting the existing stuff! That is very OK for a development guy - for a "little boy/girl hardly knowing any English" it is often very confusing (and lengthy). Right now I am on chapter 3 (probably the most complicated - Starting FGFS with/without FGrun and/or Command-Line and/or Command-File for all Operating Systems etc etc). I found it very very hard even for me to understand what is available for what and when and how - a kid cannot understand that. So I set myself some rule - which I hope you can agree to: I will not just do a word by word translation - but by that a review - and I will propose changes. I will include the proposals in my draft of the German-Version - and document all the deviations from the original for a possible pickup also in the original (or of course also to change it back in my German proposal!). I will make the work done accessible for you asap, so we can early discuss what might be good - and what might not. Give me about 1 more week to finish the proposed "major reworked Chapter 3" - then we can start. In short to some remarks made already: Yes - I am aware that many of the things are also in the wiki - and are even much more current there. In order to keep the Manual "readable for kids" I will try to use only the "absolutely needed Basics" out of the wiki and include pointers to the wiki "for more details see...". In the Manual itself I would rather shorten some things. e.g. I do not believe that all (1000 ??) Command-Line-Options must be listed in the manual - only the most used/needed ones must be there --> and a pointer! And I have a proposal for people wanting to help "hands on": It is not really very helpful to point out of a German manual to an English wiki -- so please have a look into the Manual now - where it refers to something in the wiki - and translate those basics to German (it seems that in the wiki other languages get translated more often!). e.g. I have in work now also the "De/FlightGear Launch Control" - but there are a lot more which i would consider as Basics for flying/understanding FlightGear! For the example of the Helicopter (and similar) I am not yet sure about the best way: But I am convinced also here we do need a chapter about the "Basics of how to fly a Helicopter" in the manual -- and point to the wiki for "enhanced maneuvers" and different types of helicopters etc. etc. (Helicopter-flying seems to be THE trend right now!). thanks for any help joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
