Re: [docbook-apps] Best practice for multilanguage Docbook?

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

Hi Bob,

  now that you have explained it, I now understand my own question ! Thanks.

  I will be writing both documentation (English & French) in a single
document (or xinclude), which is not the scenario which publican was
designed for. I'll use profiling.

Thanks.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
> I don't think there is a single best practice because different people have
> different requirements.  If it is a single document and you are handling the
> translation, then a single multi-language source document and profiling
> would be fine.  If you have lots of documents and/or many languages, a
> different approach might be more efficient. Further description of your
> requirements might generate a more detailed response from the list.
>
> One question is whether the document will need to be maintained, that is,
> updated with new information periodically. Each update will require
> retranslation, and the goal of the management system should be to minimize
> the cost of translation by minimizing the number of words to be
> retranslated.
>
> I've seen systems that break up the original language source document into
> modular sections, which are kept under source control. Modules are submitted
> to the translation service(s) as needed, based on a comparison of timestamps
> of the source and translated files. Someone should review the modules before
> submission to ensure real content changed, not just punctuation or product
> names that could be updated by you.   Also, most translation services
> maintain translation memories, which means only changed content within a
> module will have to be retranslated, not the whole module.  I don't think
> translation memories would work with a mixed language source document.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mathieu Malaterre"
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> Subject: [docbook-apps] Best practice for multilanguage Docbook?
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>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I am looking for help/suggestion on the following issue: what is the
>> best practice for writing a multilanguage docbook document ?
>>  docbook support the lang attribute in all elements, so I could use
>> the profile mechanism to select generation of a target language based
>> on that (*).
>>  However looking at the implementation in publican (**), they have
>> preferred the 'pot' mechanism.
>>
>> Any comments/feedback on that ?
>> --
>> Mathieu
>>
>> (*)
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org/msg03098.html
>> (**) https://fedorahosted.org/publican/
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Mathieu