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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:46:21 +0700
From:      budsz <budsz@kumprang.or.id>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Doc <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Some guide for tranlations
Message-ID:  <20020912054620.GA83601@kumprang.kumprang.or.id>
In-Reply-To: <20020911183545.GC3019@hades.hell.gr>
References:  <20020911044318.GA24358@kumprang.kumprang.or.id> <20020911183545.GC3019@hades.hell.gr>

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On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 09:35:45PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>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 :-)

Opss. I already download doc tree in local, But for indonesian tree
directory I didn't find it, how to create the first time? (You said
".../doc/el_GR.ISO8859-7 subdirectory working..."), My country code
usually is "ID". Thanks



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budsz

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