From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 10 8:40:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (kawoserv.kawo2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.180.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7747837B405 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:40:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (root@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.181.148]) by kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA23431; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:40:24 +0200 Received: (from alex@localhost) by fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6AFeiX65848; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:40:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:40:44 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Mohammed Elzubeir Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook Translation Message-ID: <20010710174044.B65778@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> References: <994774838.3b4b0f36864aa@eaglemail.unt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <994774838.3b4b0f36864aa@eaglemail.unt.edu>; from elzubeir@unt.edu on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:20:38AM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Mohammed Elzubeir (elzubeir@unt.edu): Hello Mohammed! > We are currently in the process of translating the > FreeBSD Handbook to the Arabic Language. So far we have > chapter 18 and 1 (most of 2) done. I would like to work Great! > 1. Any particular thing we should pay attention to > while doing the translation. I myself (German translation) found out, that it helps you a lot in later updates if you keep most of the formatting of the original SGML file and only change the content. I have no other tips, sorry. > 2. Any specific format we have to stick to. SGML? Sorry, what do you mean with "format"? > 3. How we can post our contributions and make it part > of the FreeBSD site ... /usr/share/doc/.. etc. You should find out how the handbook etc are built. You should create an Arabic subdir in the doc/ tree (locally in your tree) with the correct ISO name (whatever is correct for Arabian language). Then add the language specific share/ subdirs etc (see the other translations). After that, make sure everything builds ok and find a committer (probably a good idea to have one who is familiar of the Arabic language or at least can read/understand it :) who commits your initial work into the doc tree :) HTH Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message