Re: Is there a translation platform for the Emacs manual

[Janusz S. Bień]

On Sat, Jan 09 2021 at 11:39 -05, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I'm using its free version and it works pretty well.
>> Those who are interested can come and have a look.
>>
>> https://crowdin.com/project/emacs-manual-chinese 
>> <https://crowdin.com/project/emacs-manual-chinese>
>
> Cursory look suggests this is "free as in free beer", i.e. proprietary,
> so not something the Emacs project can recommend (or even just
> point to.  Actually even pointing to such services in `help-gnu-emacs`
> is frowned upon).

I was using it some time ago and I think its main advantage is a
dictionary of phrases making reasonable suggestion.

So instead od frowning offer a good alternative. E.g. you can revive

https://web.archive.org/web/20070317101647/http://open-tran.eu:80/
https://web.archive.org/web/20131230040211/http://open-tran.eu/

The code is here

https://github.com/sliwers/open-tran

but requires substantial updating, cf.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/open-tran/gO_c6ScjMUk/xAAXxFmWEAAJ

Best regards

Janusz

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Janusz S. Bien
emeryt (emeritus)
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