On 25/03/2010, at 10:56 PM, Dwayne Bailey wrote: > Hi Duncan, > > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 22:44 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote: >> Hi there, I'm looking for ways to do a collaborative translation of >> "The Transition Towns Handbook" and just heard about Pootle. From what >> I can see it is mostly used to translate manuals, man pages and web >> and software interfaces. > > Mostly Pootle is used to translate software. It can be used to > translate books/manuals but that depends very much on what format The > Transition Towns Handbook is in. > >> How suitable is Pootle for translating a book? Feel free to just give >> me a link to an earlier reply to this question. > > It will work fine as long as you can covert the text into a format that > Pootle can understand (XLIFF and PO being the best). Next step might be > to examine whether the extracted text is segmented into paragraphs or > sentences, sentences are better in a book.
Duncan, po4a converts a number of document formats into PO. http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/features.php XLIFF is a much richer format, allowing you more effective metadata. http://xliff-tools.freedesktop.org/wiki/ I agree with Dwayne about aiming for one sentence per translatable string, but iff that isn't possible, a reasonable-sized paragraph is doable in a doc translation. I've translated some docs per paragraph. (I'm not saying I like it, but it can be done if you can't segment by sentence.) I've thought a good deal about getting docs onto a server like Pootle. Not only manpages and manual text, but web/wiki pages (with auto-update!) and books. Project Gutenberg would be very interested in translating their texts. Then there's auto-publishing... from Clytie Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
