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[Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <address@hidden>]

Hi,

I made various contribs to the translation of the documentation of 
TeXmacs in spanish, and try to get a consistent style reviewing the 
previous contribs. In think also that translation is better with few 
authors and a better infraestructure.

In the moment I wanted to coordinate the labour with the development of 
TeXmacs i need to learn svn and make commits from my machine, but I was 
off-line almost all the time, so it was not a posibility and I dont 
wanted going on that learning curve. Rosetta and Lauchpad make things 
easier for contribs, but they're based in *.po files. So the first thing 
that we would need will be generation of po files from TeXmacs 
documentation files. This would make the coordination of translations 
easier. You could see a translation in progress about using "po for 
all", aka po4a, (with references to the original doc) in:

http://www.el-directorio.org:8080/po4a

also a reflexion on the translation difficults is in  "T o w a r d   a   
c e n t r a l   t r a n s l a t i o n   r e p o s i t o r y":

http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~mquinson/l10n_rant_repo.html

I think that we need a way to coordinate efforts in easy and low 
burocracy way and sourceforge, savanna and so on, are not perhaps the 
best way to make it. I would think in something more "wiki way". but 
enhanced and extended, like trac:

http://www.edgewall.com/trac/

Cheers,

Offray



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Javier Arantegui Jimenez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Vie, Febrero 17, 2006 11:59, Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:
>  
>
> > I should have updated it. However, I never found the time. The current
> > way to do the translation, explained somewhere in the website, is
> > quite easy. It is very important to preserve a certain degree of
> > consistency in the translation, so either it is a task for a single
> > person or for a closely coordinated team. I'd be happy to hand this
> > work over to you, at the present moment too many undone tasks populate
> > my calendar to commit myself to the task.
> >    
>
> The problem is all we have quite busy schedules and sometimes it's quite
> hard to find time to do these kind of things. I think the only solution is
> to find ways to ease the collaboration. Obviously some degree of quality
> must be assured. I didn't check Rosetta much, but I'm quite sure that it
> has mechanisms to let review the quality of translations. Although, maybe
> you're right and the solution is just to form and small but active
> translation team.
>
> Javier
>
>
>