Am 10.05.22 um 00:15 schrieb Gerben Wierda via ntg-context:
What is the easiest way to have a ‘database’ of translations for strings
and maybe links?
I now have 4 languages and 2 versions so 8 documents, but I’d like to
have all translatable strings together so I can maintain these in a
single file. Ideally I can do a file where the key of the translation is
one language (say English) and the translations are part of that.
Something I can call like this
\translatephrase[English phrase][nl]
\translatelocation[../LMTX-Output/without-ids/en/file.pdf][nl][simple]
and where I can maintain all the translations a bit like this:
\translationentry[English phrase]{
\definetranslatephrase[nl]Nederlandse frase]
\definetranslatephrase[fr][Phrase français]
}
}
\translatelocation[../LMTX-Output/without-ids/en/file.pdf][simple][nl][../LMTX-Output/without-ids/nl/file-simple.pdf]]
\translatelocation[../LMTX-Output/without-ids/en/file.pdf][none][nl][../LMTX-Output/without-ids/nl/file.pdf]]
Where the \translatelocation command can be used inside an
\externalfigure command and \translatephrase can be used as as text.
In the end I’d like to compile with
context language=fr mode=simple mainfile.tex
Doable?
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Hi Gerben,
a lot is doable, it depends on by whom ;)
But this looks like a quite easy case.
Of course the answer is always “Lua tables”, but I guess the
translations would be most easy to maintain in a CSV file (you can edit
it in LibreOffice or Excel, while the latter often botches the encoding).
It could look like:
key;en;de;nl
yes;yes;ja;ja
LANG;English;Deutsch;Nederlands
i.e. the first column is the keyword and the other columns contain the
translated term (so you can also change the “original” version).
(We’re using the same in a LaTeX3 project made by Marei.)
Without researching I assume there are already Lua functions to read a
CSV file into a Lua table, and the lookup is easy – since I’m not fluent
in Lua, I won’t provide the function(s) for you.
BTW there is already \translate
(https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/translate) that changes text
depending on the current language.
And there is the translate module that changes terms within the whole
text:
https://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/modules/mkiv/m-translate.mkiv
Other options like .po files might be more versatile but also much more
involved.
This covers \translatephrase; for your figures I’d just just a language
variable in the path, like \externalfigure[images/\LANG/cow.pdf]
If this is always the current language, use \currentlanguage.
You can also setup the language dependent directory in
\setupexternalfigures.
Regarding modes, the current language is set as a system mode (*en,
*nl), and of course you can query modes with one of the many \doif
macros. (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes)
Since it doesn’t make sense to try
\externalfigure[path/\currentmode/cow] (you never know how many modes
are active), you can set a macro or variable depending on a mode:
\doifmode{simple}{\setvariable{gerben}{level}{simple}}
and then
\externalfigure[images/\getvariable{gerben}{level}/\currentlanguage/cow]
Hraban
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