Quoting Pierre-Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> I'm beginning the French translation of Gnucash's help, and have been >>>> suggested that it would be a good move to look into converting >>>> gnucash-help to gnome-doc-utils [1]. >> >> Without having looked too much into g-d-u details I'd *strongly* adverse >> moving our user documentation to po files! Po files are great for smaller >> chunks of translations which can be translated more or less independent from >> one another. > > I suspected so, and pot files indeed look scary and unusable. > > Does someone know a good way of handling big doc translation in a > collaborative fashion, without resorting to hard to use tools ? I know > of a wiki engine capable of editing docbooks, or exporting to docbooks.
I think wiki editing and exporting to docbook would be a very good solution, because for collaborative document editing the wiki is just fine, whereas docbook as export format would give you the opportunity to create any further formats that might be needed. However, every now and then as I was looking into the export function of mediawiki (Mediawiki-to-docbook export) it turns out there still isn't an easy and error-free solution to do this. For example, there is http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wiki2xml/w2x.php but on Docbook export (and OpenOffice.org export) the quoted code fragments (Lines starting with whitespace, or "<tt>" markup) sometimes silently disappear, which is not tolerable for actual documentation editing. If anyone can point us to an actually *working* implementation of Mediawiki-export-to-docbook, we'd be happy to provide the necessary Mediawiki infrastructure and set up the conversion from our wiki to the gnucash-docs package. But so far I can't see a solution that really works. For the record, here are further (partially dead) projects about exporting: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wiki2LaTeX http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Open_Office_Export http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export And the above mentioned, http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wiki2xml/w2x.php with its SVN repo http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/wiki2xml/ Regards, Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
