I do some work on the PHP documentation. To allow for multiple languages, the documentation is primarily written in English and stored in a CVS repository. The translators watch for CVS commits and then update their versions of the manual, committing those changes back to CVS. There is a separate build process to take the CVS and construct webpages and CHM in all the languages.
The format at the moment is Docbook and a combination of DSSSL and XSL along with a bit of PHP are used to do all of this. Unfortunately, I'm no Docbook/DSSSL/XSL expert. Having a repository for the documentation would be useful. The biggest issue is for non-english speaking users getting out of date documentation as there translators (all volunteers) have not translated the most recent amendments. Having said that, for such a small API, there shouldn't be too much of an issue keeping on to of the edits. Richard. On 22/02/07, Mislav Marohnić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We briefly mentioned translations in one of our discussions. If they > existed, they would have to be hosted and maintained elsewhere. How many > volunteers would there be and will the multilingual docs be up-to-date with > the official ones, we don't know. > > I guess the idea doesn't have enough interest yet. > > > > On 2/22/07, Jussi Salminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wonder is there any needs to translate official Prototype manual to > another language than english? > > English is the "internet" language, but still there are many peoples that > doesn't understand some meanings of manual. > > > > If need, I could translate manual in english to finnish. > > > > I think that at least next languages should have own manual > > * Spain > > * German > > > > Just idea, not yet anything more.. > > > > > > > > > > > -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
