about the book it's on www.daif.net/linux please wait a couple of days befor downloaing it I''m going to put a large file with all images and uptodate htmls --- about the man no need to .po files man pages are a plane text with some markup .TH ..PP you may found it in /usr/man/manN whre N : 1-9 you can copy it to your home then uncompress it uzip gzip or bzip2 then just edit it with any thing
--- Anmar Oueja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hehe.. translating man pages was the first email i > sent to arabeyes.org > when i learned about their existance.. that was > almost a year ago.. maybe. > > I still think it is a fantastic idea and should be > looked into > seriously. I am not a fan of making the commands > themselves arabic, but > making the description and help arabic. > > Tell you what... i will try and look into maybe > converting man pages to > some sort of a .po formant we can then create a new > project under > translatios and start working on that or get some > people interested... > How about that... > > BTW, how is your book coming along.. can you tell me > where to find it ? > > Anmar > > Moayyad Al-Sadi wrote: > > --- Anmar Oueja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hello Moayyad: > >> > >>Thanks alot for your man page. I am having > diffculty > >>opening it in > >>nautilus on Debian Sid but i am sure it is some > >>thing i am missing. > >> > > > > use KDE konq.. > > or in nautlus pic view as other then select galeon > > --- > > > >>BTW, if we use Docbook format (XML) we can > >>translated all of our docs to > >>man pages (assuming we are translating them to > man). > >> > >>I think having arabic man pages is great. > >> > >>Anmar > > > > well I think 1st we should translate man pages > that > > cover the system commands and admin and file types > > all of them comes with all distro and all of them > > comes as compressed plain text files we can > translate > > every thing that does not begin with .(DOT) > > man pages is a text file with mark up like .TH .TE > .PP > > just skip them when you translate > > no need to have the xml of the original man pages > > > >>Moayyad Al-Sadi wrote: > >> > >>>I was anti-transalting man pages since mlterm and > >> > >>akaa > >> > >>>are not yet famous > >>>but I real an article in linuxfocus that change > my > >>>mind > >>>yes we can read arabic man pages in konqueror and > >>>nautlus > >>>download this test > >>> > >> > > > http://www.linux-egypt.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=20041 > > > >>>change the extention to be foobar.n > >>>and type in the address in konqueror or nautlus > >>>man:/home/name/foobar.n > >>>then you can read it in arabbic > >>>--- > >>>so let us start translating the main man pages > >>>--- > >>> > >>> > >>>__________________________________ > >>>Do you Yahoo!? > >>>Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" > >> > >>Sweepstakes > >> > >>>http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>General mailing list > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > >>> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>General mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" > Sweepstakes > > http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
