From owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Sat Sep 5 13:56:28 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EB59CA567 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 13:56:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3126B1C93 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 13:56:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id t85DuNfx053334 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 5 Sep 2015 07:56:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id t85DuMNM053331; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 07:56:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 07:56:22 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: "Julian H. Stacey" cc: "freebsd-doc@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: freebsd documentation help In-Reply-To: <201509040131.t841VJio082144@fire.js.berklix.net> Message-ID: References: <201509040131.t841VJio082144@fire.js.berklix.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 05 Sep 2015 07:56:23 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:56:28 -0000 On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Lukas Splavec wrote: >> Thanks a lot! I would really appreciate any help possible. At the moment I >> am trying to make translation software to work and then we can go through >> it together. > > A list of free on line translator engines in case it helps anyone: > http://www.berklix.org/trans/ > Maybe someone might write a shell to call one of the engines on existing > freebsd.org web pages, then freeze them, & rerun every so often. It's technically possible. Licenses and copyright would have to be considered. > It could bulk auto translate a mass of languages for FreeBSD really fast. > it'd be clunky, & freebsd.org doc project till now uses non HTML > master format DocBook XML, yes. > & doc tools (that never build for me), Please contact me publicly or privately about that. There have been problematic ports, but as far as I know, everything should be good now. > Just as some BSD/IX projects have primary & secondary status CPUs, > FreeBSD could do similar with human languages ... Easily add a > swathe of new auto translated secondary HTML formatted languages. > When/ if enough volunteers offer to improve translations, edit to primary. We kind of already have that, although the secondary type is where the user manually uses Google Translate or one of the other services on one of our HTML documents. > Not me though. In 1985 I was contracted to automate Unix src/ translation to 7 > languages, but I don't enoy defects & inconsistencies of human languages. If you would like to try out the PO translation system... :)