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Re: Is there a translation platform for the Emacs manual


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Is there a translation platform for the Emacs manual
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 04:41:07 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

奔跑的小草 wrote:

> I think that there must be a manual in the local language
> first, and then a tutorial. After all, the tutorial is to
> summarize and simplify.
>
> If you need to know more about the specific content, no
> manual would be very unfriendly.
>
> And, the tutorial is for personal understanding of a certain
> version. It will be outdated and subjectively judged.
>
> So I think the manual is more important than the tutorial.

Perhaps, but it requires immensely more work than the/a
simple/short tutorial, for which the success rate, one
imagines, is much higher.

Maybe more people read the tutorial as well? When they are
ready to move from tutorial to manual, maybe they know good
enough English already? (IMO the on-line help is the most
important piece of documentation.)

Also, one can argue that the "local language", as you call it,
for computers is actually English!

To provide an example, consider people who translates GNU
manuals. They need to know good English!

Well, obviously...

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