discuss: Generate PO from SGML
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Re: [discuss] Generate PO from SGML
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"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fabr=EDcio_Godoy?=" ####@####.####
Date:
19 Nov 2008 14:11:58 +0000
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I know any successful conversion from SGML to PO?
2008/11/19 jdd for http://tldp.org ####@####.####
> Fabrício Godoy a écrit :
>
> > No, in this case PO are not used, but MO files converted from PO.
> > The MO files are found in /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES
>
> well.. po is the file used to translate.
>
> It's posible to use po files to translate a doc, for example inkscape
> uses it to translate his tutorials (here to french):
>
>
> http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/doc-docbook/trunk/basic/fr.po?revision=15752&view=markup
>
> The source is still the docbook format, so it should be compatible
> with LDP.
>
> However, I don't know if it gives really some advantages.
>
> It can be good is the source langage file changes almost never, to
> reflect the small changes. This can be the case for HOWTOs.
>
> For what I know, po files are not friendly.
>
> It's difficult to have both user interaction like wikis and easy
> translation. Wiki gives often many small changes and it's difficult to
> know if the changes are important (=need translation) or only
> cosmetics (=can be ignored), and in docs changes in the position of
> paragraphs are not unfrequent. Phrases are long (as in the inkscape
> example) and so it's not easy to make the translation.
>
> po files are very good to translate strings with fixed length, like
> text in interactive screens (YaST, for openSUSE users, for example)
>
> Howaver, if you reach your goal and makes it easy to translate HOWTO,
> this will be good news :-))
>
> jdd
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