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[Nick Bailey <address@hidden>]

Well, I can only speak English and I am not proud of it. I learned latin 
for a time at school, but have forgotten all of it.

I agree that it is important to target and focus development work, but I 
am sure there are a lot of people who are not "top draw" programmers (I 
include myself in that category when it comes to lisp-like languages!) 
but who want to contribute to an excellent project like this, and it 
seems to me that translation is as good as any. I hope I've not insulted 
the gentleman who submitted the Spanish translation: perhaps he is an 
excellent programmer.

I think we should not support Windows. It is a waste of time and only of 
benefit for marketting purposes. The amount of time it takes to work 
around bugs in Windows systems wastes the time of the most expert 
programmers.

8)

I wish I could have written that in Spanish...

Nick/


Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    Probably the translator will not like my opinion ... but I have one.
>
>    My first language is Spanish. Actually I live in Italy, but 
> basically speak in English
>    in the Web, etc.
>
>    Offer something in non-english ... is really not necessary and only 
> offers an opportunity
>    to non-english speaking to enter in something in some mode and 
> generally incomplete.
>
>    So, my advice is that everyone does not lose time in translate 
> programs, or use things
>    like Computers or programs in non-english, but just ENGLISH.
>
>    All the efforts that hundred of people translating are simple 
> obsolete.
>
>    Also to maintain a program, if you support three or five ... or up 
> to 40 like KDE, you
>    will have a incredible effort for nothing.
>
>    This is valid for sales, and the rest. Just english.
>
>    I want that people, learn from our mistakes, investing an 
> incredible quantity of money and
>    time. Just English, and don't lose time in other matters.
>
>    Also, the efforts for translations may be focalized in increase, 
> test and enhace programs
>    instead to change labels, for an eventual new customer[s].
>
> Regards,
> Giovanni.
>
> PS. Yo adoro mi primer idioma, mi Espan#ol. Pero es mas facil, ya sea 
> para
> quien habla espan#ol aprender Ingles, que para quien desarolla el 
> programa
> utilizar, un solo language: English!
>
> Deseo que aprovechen de esto, en no crear mas mundos, si no en 
> enfortalezer
> un solo, porque hay un solo mundo.
>
> Un abrazo! 
>  
>
> > Hello,
> > I have updated the translations to the menus to match 1.0.0.20. I 
> > also made some modifications to improve the translation of previous
> > existing keys.
> > Pablo Ruiz has agreed to participate in the translation of the online
> > documentation. For this to happen, he would need an user in the doc CVS
> > tree.
> > I encourage the spanish speaking users on this list to express their
> > preferences as to the terminology employed to translate the mathematical
> > result names. These changes have an impact over the document, and I will
> > try consequently to keep them to a minimum, but feedback is greatly
> > appreciated.
> > Take for example the "proof" environment. Which translation do you
> > prefer, "demostración" or else "prueba"?. What is the standard
> > mathematical practice in your field?.
> >
> > Perhaps the internationalized environment names should make part of the
> > stylesheet? At least I guess it would be good to separate from the rest
> > all those names which end up typeset in the document. Comments?
> > TIA, álvaro.
> > PS. TeXmacs 1.0.0.20 users should simply overwrite
> > texmacsdir/langs/natural/dic/english-spanish.scm with the attachment in
> > order to benefit immediatly from the updated translations.
> > PS2. 'preview with ghostview' is no longer accurate, since TeXmacs tries
> > first gv... should it be 'preview with ps viewer', or perhaps 'screen
> > preview' or 'printer preview', or just 'preview'?
> > PS3. No matter what I do I do not get strings such as "* modifier",
> > "don't remap" or "caps-lock key" translated... anybody any clues?
> > PS4. Why not put these files also under version control?
> >
> >  

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