On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 00:59, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Hi, Andrew,
> 
> 11. November 2003 11:39 you wrote:
> 
> AB> Then the most productive method (IMNSHO) would be to check out the
> AB> samba-docs repository, and open an emacs window in side-by-side mode,
> AB> Then just move down the page, replacing text in one window and reading
> AB> the context in the other.  
> 
> AB> That is, it really should be easy not to modify the surrounding tags at
> AB> all, therefore ensuring that referencing (particularly chapter numbering
> AB> etc) remain perfectly intact.  There will probably be small formatting
> AB> changes but these can probably be left to the editors.
> 
> I have no XML-experience but I think if we don�t want to change tags
> and referencing, we don�t have to know that much about it.
> 
> So my questions:
> 
> - If I edit the pages in OpenOffice (as is discussed right now because
> of its availability and interface, not everyone likes emacs, but that
> definitely is another topic), can I use the DocBook XML filters to
> generate usable XML?

I suspect you will still loose things.  I've not tried it (so I can't
say for sure), but that's my concern.  But any text editor will do very
nicely.  (And as the interest is in the translation, how it looks
on-screen or in output shouldn't matter till the end, when you generate
it up).

> - Would you recommend to just add a samba-german-docs-tree to the
> Samba-CVS and let the participating people access that subtree with
> rw-rights? I think this would simplify the whole process, right now we
> are discussing how and where to host that project.

A CVS tree is a good idea, but hosting on samba.org is rather
difficult.  If you can get a sourceforge (or similar) account, then you
will probably find it easier.

> I don�t know if this is possible, but I think, it would keep things
> together and people like you or John H Terpstra could have an eye on
> it to keep us from making the mistakes you want us to avoid.

I don't speak a word of german (so I'm not quite sure why I'm in this
discussion at all :-) but I think we can get a reasonable process going.

> I am sure we will find a good solution to those starting problems.

I think this is starting to move in the right direction.

Andrew Bartlett

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