All that is needed to convert your manuals, which seem to be HTML, into a form suitable for the laptops is to create a library bundle. The instructions can be found in the wiki here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Content_bundles
regards. -walter On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Horváth-Militicsi Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Walter > > Could you tell me please, at which stage is the implementation of my manuals > of professional French into your laptops ? I am now working to finish as > soon as possible the third of one from the 4 planned. > Amically yours > Attila Horvath-Militicsi from Novi Sad, Serbia > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.6hunyadi-fle.org/HMA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: 2008. április 8. 18:00 > Subject: Sugar Digest, Vol 22, Issue 35 > > > > Send Sugar mailing list submissions to > > [email protected] > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of Sugar digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: [Localization] code comments? (Edward Cherlin) > > 2. Sugar mtg April 08 2008 (Simon Schampijer) > > 3. xulrunner beta5 in sugar-jhbuild (Simon Schampijer) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 01:56:15 -0700 > > From: "Edward Cherlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [sugar] [Localization] code comments? > > To: "Walter Bender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: Sugar Mailing List <[email protected]>, Localization mailing > > list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Message-ID: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It may become an important feature over time, such as when we have > >> Quechua support and want to fall back to Spanish before falling back > >> to English, but I wouldn't think it is a priority in any of our > >> current deployments. > > > > Current target countries > > > > Haiti: Krey?l/French/English > > Rwanda: Kinyarwanda/English/French > > Cambodia: Khmer/French/English > > Afghanistan: Dari/Pashto/English, Pashto/Dari/Russian/English, > > Pashto/Urdu/English, Dari/Tajik/English, Hazara/Dari/English... > > Mongolia: Mongolian/Russian/English or Mongolian/English/Russian. > > Later on a choice between Mongolian (Cyrillic) and Mongolian > > (Traditional) will complicate matters further. > > US: English/Spanish, English/French, English/Chinese, English/Italian, > > English/Korean, English/Vietnamese,... > > > > Other possibilities > > > > Nigeria: any combination of Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, English and others > > Brazil: Portuguese (Brazil)/Portuguese/English/Spanish, among other > > possibilities > > India: Any combination of more than 20 official languages, plus other > > world languages > > > > Me: > > > English/French/German/Russian/Spanish/Yiddish/Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Swahili > > > > You can't decide for your users what they want. It is best to let them > > choose. I don't say that you have to allow 10 choices, as in my > > example, but four or five is quite common. My grandfather spoke > > Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Yiddish, and later in life English, and > > knew a fair amount of Hebrew and some Aramaic. They do say that the > > correct English word for a person who speaks multiple languages is > > "polyglot", and the correct English word for a person who speaks only > > one language is "American". > > > >> -walter > >> > >> > >> > >> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > Very interesting, I guess we should integrate it in the language > >> > section of the control panel. AFAIK, this is not being considered > >> yet. > >> > > >> > If we don't want to add more complexity to the control panel UI, we > >> > may assign under the hoods a fallback language to every language? > > > > No. Too many possibilities, not enough information. > > > >> > Perhaps someone from deployment could comment on the better milestone > >> > to target this? > >> > > >> > Tomeu > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Bert Freudenberg > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > Interesting, thanks. Are there any plans to make use of this > >> feature > >> > > in deployments? > >> > > > >> > > - Bert - > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > On 05.04.2008, at 12:05, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >> > > > Yes, by setting LANGUAGE env variable with a fall back language, > >> > > > some thing > >> > > > like "LANGUAGE=ur_PK:fa_IR:ar", you can specify multiple fall > >> back > >> > > > languages. > >> > > > > >> > > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:31:30AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg > >> wrote: > >> > > >> ... which reminds me: Is it possible in gettext to fall back on > >> a > >> > > >> language other than English when a translation for some phrase > >> cannot > >> > > >> be found? That would be a useful feature I think, as long as > >> there > >> > > >> are > >> > > >> programs that are not fully translated (which will happen very > >> > > >> often). > >> > > >> > >> > > >> - Bert - > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > _______________________________________________ > >> > > Localization mailing list > >> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization > >> > > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Sugar mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Walter Bender > >> One Laptop per Child > >> http://laptop.org > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Localization mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Edward Cherlin > > End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business > > http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ > > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:18:25 +0200 > > From: Simon Schampijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [sugar] Sugar mtg April 08 2008 > > To: Sugar List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > In today's meeting we will review eben's sugar todo list: > > > > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-April/004909.html > > > > and discuss some parts like the 'AlertBox' in detail. > > > > See you, > > Simon > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 3 > > Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:06:53 +0200 > > From: Simon Schampijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [sugar] xulrunner beta5 in sugar-jhbuild > > To: Sugar List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > Hi, > > > > I have updated sugar-jhbuild to use the xulrunner beta 5 sources > > > http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/04/02/firefox-3-beta-5-now-available-for-download/ > > > > It passed the buildbot test as well: > > http://iorich.caltech.edu:8014/A/builds/203 > > > > Enjoy, > > Simon > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > > > > > End of Sugar Digest, Vol 22, Issue 35 > > ************************************* > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
