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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:35:45 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        budsz <budsz@kumprang.or.id>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Doc <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Some guide for tranlations
Message-ID:  <20020911183545.GC3019@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20020911044318.GA24358@kumprang.kumprang.or.id>
References:  <20020911044318.GA24358@kumprang.kumprang.or.id>

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On 2002-09-11 11:43, budsz <budsz@kumprang.or.id> wrote:
> I'am FreeBSD user from indonesian, I was read how to be commiter doc
> project (expecially for my native language). Where is should begin?

Start by trying to duplicate the doc/ tree locally, and adding a
proper subdirectory with translations in your local encoding.
For example, when I wanted to start a Greek translation, my main aim
was to get a minimal /doc/el_GR.ISO8859-7 subdirectory working, and
then go on adding and tweaking documents under it.

What you want to read is:

a) The source of the Makefiles under doc/share/mk,
   doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/mk, and the local Makefiles that every
   subdirectory of doc/en_US.ISO8859-1 has.  Use a local doc/ copy
   [ which you can even update with CVSup using as an example the
   supfile found at /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile ] or...
   browse the doc/ sources on the web at: http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/doc/

b) The FDP primer for New Contributors.  This should provide a lot of
   help when you want to start working with HTML or SGML documents.
   Find it at http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer
   formatted as HTML output, or read the SGML sources and the Makefiles
   at http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer

That's probably a lot of reading, but you can always ask questions
related to the way the documentation is written, or converted to many
formats by sending mail to <doc@FreeBSD.org>.  But I guess you know
that already.

Oh, and ...
Thanks for volunteering to start a new translation :-)

- Giorgos

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