Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:40:44 +0200 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir@unt.edu> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook Translation Message-ID: <20010710174044.B65778@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <994774838.3b4b0f36864aa@eaglemail.unt.edu>; from elzubeir@unt.edu on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:20:38AM -0500 References: <994774838.3b4b0f36864aa@eaglemail.unt.edu>
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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
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