Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 17:03:34 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to pick up the gauntlent with multi-lingualism again? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951122164623.17629A-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <3709.817066148@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > o The growing formation of the regional name servers which is leading us > to www.fr.freebsd.org, www.br.freebsd.org, and so on. The regional web > sites will want to make versions of their pages available in the native > language as well as english, I expect. Apache can (in theory) serve up different versions of a web page based on language preference specified by the browser. It might be possible to have a Single Unified WWW tree, with hooks for local data. The unified pages could be mirrored around the world so that a use could get whatever language from whatever happens to be the closest server. Independent of multi-lingual stuff, I'd like to make the WWW pages sup-able to facilitates those wishing to mirror the pages. However, I don't know *anything* about the server end of sup.... > 1. Put the framework in place for additional versions of the handbook, > keyed by language. Let translation-oriented people start sniffing > around in the handbook and see what parts might be most valuable to > translate. As with sup, I'm an i18n novice. Are there any conventions already in the system that should be adhered to, i.e environment variables that should be consulted or other clues. > 2. Do the whole -floppydoc thing that didn't get done for 2.1 - that is, > nuke the docs out of sysinstall/help and generate the floppy's doc > on the fly from a subset of the handbook. The framework for this already exists in 2.1/current. Just cd to the handbook directory, type make DOC=boothelp FORMATS=html and voila! hypertext install floppy docs! At a coarse level, boothelp.sgml selects the main components to go in the boothelp docs. At a finer level it also defines a flag that can be used as a conditional within a component. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============
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