Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:13:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "doc@FreeBSD.org" <doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating translation workflow Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1308200908550.96511@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHnG2CzGwwQsNjRx3bGE3e0T1X%2B7r_sbygX%2B_iirvzszRWyU%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1308191048270.16753@wonkity.com> <CAHnG2CzGwwQsNjRx3bGE3e0T1X%2B7r_sbygX%2B_iirvzszRWyU%2BQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Gabor Pali wrote: > Hi Warren, > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >> * Translators work too hard. No automation, no assistance from the >> computer to see what needs to be translated > > I am not sure of this. A few years ago we seem to have a consensus on > an informal "API" that allows tracking untranslated changes [1]. This > was the %SRCID% tag placed in the translated files. Using this tag, > one could generate nice stats about the work to do [2], and get the > diffs to work with. At least, that is what I did for a few years... Interesting! >> no reuse of previously-translated terms. > > I have maintained a vocabulary for the translation of commonly used > expressions [3] in the past. So I was consistent with myself at least > :-P Well, yes, but this appears to be manual and does not automatically translate the same strings that are found in other documents. That is part of what the newer automated systems do. > [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-doc/2008-June/018345.html > [2] http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/checkupdate/fdp.nl.reminder.txt > [3] https://wiki.freebsd.org/HungarianDocumentationProjectVocabulary I did find a patch for itstool that seems to be what is needed to add DTD support so entities are expanded. I have not tested it yet. https://gitorious.org/~gmcharlt/itstool/gmcharlts-itstool
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