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From: | David Bateman |
Subject: | Re: I'd like to be a contributor! |
Date: | Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:55:10 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) |
JP Ferraro wrote:
I'd like to translate the "575 page manual" from english to portuguese| (Brazil). If you accept my contribution, i'd like to know how could i get| the text to begin the translation work.** *When i sent him this e-mail, John W. Eaton (address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>) said to let you know about my wish:* I suggest you let people on the address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> list know aboutyour plans. It would also be good for us to develop a way handle translations of the doc strings in Octave. Since much of the manual is made up of these doc strings that are embedded in the sources, it would be good to edit translations of them if/when they change. That might also be a good discussion for the maintainers list.jwe" --João Paulo Ferraro T. de Araujo
This problem breaks down into two issues. 1) translating the help strings of the functions themselves, and 2) translating the rest of the manual.The manual reuses the help strings, and having a system to handle translated help strings would allow you to do something like "ajuda eig"... Octave-forge has the framework to allow this to be done, see
http://octave.sourceforge.net/translation.html and there is an octave-forge package http://octave.sourceforge.net/pt_BR/index.htmlalready for Brazilian Portuguese from Jorge Barros de Abreu. The problem with this is keeping the english and translated strings in agreement, and system in the octave-forge package allows this... In any case I'd suggest you install and load the pt_BR package and play with the translated help strings..
However, that doesn't address the manual itself. Ideally we should translate first all of the help strings of the functions in the manner above and then the *.txi files in Octave and so allow the creation of the translated manual with the same mechanism as the English manual itself...
Regards David -- David Bateman address@hidden 35 rue Gambetta +33 1 46 04 02 18 (Home) 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt FRANCE +33 6 72 01 06 33 (Mob)
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