Re: Some French help files want German language

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am 29.03.2014 10:19, schrieb Daniel CLEMENT:

Le samedi 29 mars 2014 à 05:41 +0100, Uwe Stöhr a écrit :

Am 28.03.2014 18:01, schrieb Daniel CLEMENT:

I was trying to learn LyX better, and I noticed an unexpected error
message when compiling the Math guide. It's a Babel error message
complaining that the "ngerman" option was not defined.

This also happened with the User Guide, while other docs compiled fine
(Introduction, Learning Guide, Embedded objects...)

With texlive-lang-german installed, everything works!

I also have TeXLive (on Windows) and don't need to install an extra
language pack for German. Do you
use a special Linux distribution that has its own TeXLive-packages?

Just Debian (Linux Mint Debian). As Jürgen has already explained,
TeXLive as of 2013 has split Babel language support files, and I had to
install the packages texlive-lang-french (of course) and
texlive-lang-german (more unexpectedly).

That's why I hadn't noticed it before, with the older TeXLive.

Now, German is a
beautiful language, but isn't that weird?

In the documentation files we sometimes use another language to show
e.g. the multi-language
features. Sometimes we translators are simply to lazy to translate.
For example for the explanation
of multicolumns the text in the columns is English because it is just
a dummy text to fill the
columns. There are some similar cases.

Yes, precisely at the same place, pp. 69-70 of the French maths manual,
we have a nice 2-column quotation in Goethe's language beginning with
"Das Spektrum wird fouriertransformiert."

I'm perfectly fine with that, the texlive-lang-german uses a negligible
size on a modern HD. I was just thinking of a new user who could wonder
why the user guide does not compile first time.

FWIW, I could easily provide a French translation of this German
excerpt, even more so if you provide me with the English version :-)
--just ask.

regards Uwe

Regards,

Here an attempted translation of the Spectrum part from German into English, which might help you for your translation into French (see atachement).

Wolfgang

SpectrumFourierTransformed.lyx
Description: application/lyx