Hello Jean-Philippe, First things first - many thanks indeed! Second things second - I reworked the files you submitted a little to make them build. The main changes were re-saving some files as UTF-8 and replacing the and œ sequences which were not working, as well as updating UserManual.xml. I have made my updated versions available together with the PDF output at
https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/manual/ On 11/02/13 20:46, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > On Monday 11 Feb 2013 à 15:48:25 (+0100), Klaus Espenlaub wrote: >> What's your platform? Windows? Linux? If we know those details it should >> be reasonably simple for us to work out some steps which doesn't need >> you to build the whole product tree (and have all prerequisites). > > I use Linux. Linux From Scratch. As translator of LFS book I have common > docbook > utilities for XML. If you were able to get the configure script to finish then you should be able to just do $ kmk VBOX_DOCS_WITH_TRANSLATIONS=1 in the docs/manual directory to only build the documentation. I hope that will work in practice too! >>> 2. Some review would be useful. I will let readers report the problems and >>> I'll make an appeal to review, but it would be fine is a French-speaking >>> here, >>> for instance the people who translated the GUI, could review. >> >> Certainly... with a document of this size it's simply normal to have >> some typos in the initial version. We'll see how fast we can manage to >> find some native speakers to proofread. > > Cool. Thanks. I added a message to the translation ticket on our bug tracker to get the French translation maintainer's attention and hope that he sees it. Perhaps you might also try going onto the #vbox IRC channel on freenode.net and just asking for French speakers, or to the vbox-users-community mailing list or the forums? See https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community Thanks again! Regards, Michael >>> 3. I could not do the screenshots in French. It would be fine is someone >>> could >>> convert his interface into French and generate the screenshots to put them >>> in >>> images/ directory. It would be more relevant for the final user. >> >> This should be doable once we're past the initial proofreading phase... > > Perfect. > >>> 4. Finally, is the translator of the GUI wants to talk with me about the >>> translation >>> or if you need some translation of the GUI, I am available. I'll send my >>> updates >>> patches here anyway (and try to stay informed regularly of the svn updates). >>> I gues no notification system exist? > >> I'll talk with our translation coordinator to establish the contact with >> the GUI translator responsible for French. > > Fine. > >> trac (which is the application behind www.virtualbox.org) has a >> notification system in the form of a RSS feed in several places, e.g. >> the timeline or the revision history. >> >> A RSS feed URL for monitoring all changes in the manual subdirectory >> (limited to the last 300 revisions) would be >> https://www.virtualbox.org/vbox/log/trunk/doc/manual?format=rss&limit=300&mode=stop_on_copy >> >> You can use your favorite RSS feed reader (FireFox has a built-in one). > > Great! I'll examine these utilities. > >>> Please let me informed if you don't want to add this translation in the SVN >>> repo. I'll put it in other place. >> >> This will certainly go into the repository very soon. Would be a shame >> to ignore a language spoken by more than 200 million people (according >> to Wikipedia). > > Great! Thanks > >>> Hope it helps. >> >> I'm certain it will. Thank you very much for the effort to reach more >> users in their native language. > > So I'm pleased. > > Best regards, > >> Klaus >> >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> JPM >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> vbox-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev > -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
