Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 21:00:58 +0700 From: Abdullah Koro <koro@idola.net.id> To: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, id-freebsd@egroups.com Subject: Re: Contributing on Translating FreeBSD Documentation Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.0.20001231205756.05cd4e50@mail.garudaweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20001231134055.A8263@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001231193037.05e54be0@idola.net.id> <5.0.0.25.0.20001231193037.05e54be0@idola.net.id>
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Okay... Thanks a lot for your help. I will try your instruction and I think FreeBSD Indonesia User Group will contribute much about this. If we had some trouble we'll contact you again :) regards, Koro At 01:40 PM 12/31/00 +0100, Alexander Langer wrote: >Thus spake Abdullah Koro (koro@freebsd.or.id): > > > project is translating documentation like: > > - FreeBSD Handbook > > - FAQ > > - etc > > into our native Language, Bahasa Indonesia. > > could you point and give me explanation on how to start and manage the > > translation? > >Hello! > >You should get the cvs version from the doc tree. >Please read the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer to find out how >to get it and what you need as well. > >Then you'll find the English version in the directory >en_US.ISO_8859-1/ > >If you want to translate the handbook for example, I suggest you copy >the english version into the same directory in a directory called >id_ID.ISO_8859-1 or whatever charset you use. >Copy the Makefile stuff and everything else what is needed as well. > >Then translate the stuff you find in the *.sgml files. > >Check out the German version, for example, whose handbook contains >only some translated chapters at the moment. You can see how we do >it. >A general good idea is to add a remark "Original version" to each file >to be able to track changes in the English version. > >Alex >-- >cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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