This is the mail archive of the
docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
mailing list for the DocBook project.
Re: [docbook] Managing translations
- From: davidw at dedasys dot com (David N. Welton)
- To: Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: 12 Jun 2003 12:05:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: [docbook] Managing translations
- References: <20021024093253.B16012@caldera.com><87n0gp3n2y.fsf_-_@dedasys.com> <20030611093738.B17331@sco.com>
Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:37:57PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
> > [ Please CC replies to me. ]
> > Hi, one of the Apache Rivet users just supplied us with a complete
> > translation of the documentation in Russian. Wow! As happy as I am
> > to have received this donation, I'm now faced with learning how to
> > manage it as quick as possible. For instance:
> > 1) How to attempt to keep the two files coordinated in some way?
> A revision control system like CVS is essential. You must be able
> to record author comments regarding editorial changes of the English
> files to know if they require updating in other languages. Noting
> that a file's modification date has changed is not enough
> information, since rearranging a line break will generate a diff.
It's in CVS, of course...
> Also, you can record which version of an English file was sent to
> translation. And when the Russian file comes back, you can record in
> its comment which English version it was based on.
Thanks. These sorts of 'best practices' are exactly what I'm looking
for.
> > 2) Maybe this falls a bit outside the scope of this list,
> > but... how do I go about automatically generating properly named
> > HTML files (introduction.ru_UTF.html or whatever it is)? I use
> > xsltproc.
> If you want all of your Russian HTML files to be named
> *.ru_UTF.html, then set the stylesheet parameter html.ext to
> ".ru_UTF.html" at runtime, and set use.id.as.filename to 1.
Perfect - thanks a million,
--
David N. Welton
Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/
Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/
Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/
Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org
For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-help@lists.oasis-open.org