On 18 Feb 2014, at 17:17, Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Remko Lodder wrote: > >> My project at work is not able to keep up with the ?content spree? that Dru >> is >> doing to make things better. Good work, but a drama for translation teams >> that >> need to be in sync first (and with a train that moves so fast, it will remain >> out of date). > > Maybe the only way to do that is translate a fixed revision/snapshot. At > least with our existing system. > >> Do note that translating strings of text might have a dramatic result; >> especially >> in non english versions, one translation might fit the one line but the >> other line >> wouldn?t fit. Although ofcourse this sounds interesting there is much more >> to it. >> (we do not have a set of predefined things we mention like $_[LANG] = ?The >> bird >> flew over the house?; which is used once or perhaps twice. We have ?rolling? >> content >> like a book. > > Translation software like Pootle or poedit generally gives the translator the > choice. Content is shown in chunks, like a title or a sentence. If one or > more translations of that chunk already exist (either from the current > document or a different one!), the translator can choose from them, or enter > a better translation of their own. > > This would radically change the way we do things. Translators would still > need to be aware that source documents had changed, but the translation > software would identify parts that were not yet translated. It would ease the > job for existing translators and lower the threshold for new translators. > > Obviously, this is all vague and ill-defined. Actual implementations that > can be tested would be much more useful. I believe the tools in > textproc/po4a are from Debian and somewhat dated. textproc/itstool might do > a better job separating content if we can just get it to recognize and use > our XML catalogs. > > An easy way for translators to try it out is the next step.
Since I do not have -that- much free time at the moment, and a new assignment might interfere with my current project, I cannot do the heavy lifting of this. I am willing to test this though if someone has something that I can try to work with. Cheers and keep up the good work :-))) Remko > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" -- /"\ Best regards, | [email protected] \ / Remko Lodder | remko@EFnet X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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