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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Newbie: Overwrite contents of a dbl1XX.ent file
/ Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com.br> was heard to say: | While this topic is on discussion, I'd like to ask you what about | implementing another language in DocBook? The problem is: there's a | "pt" file, which stands for portuguese. According to some ISO standard | (sorry, I don't remember which one) some countries have 4 letter | designation for their idiom. As an example, for Portugal we have pt | and pt_PT. For Brazil we use pt_BR. Right. That's OK. For Brazil, create dbl1ptbr.ent and/or dbl1ptbr.dsl. | I was interested on creating a pt_BR translation of DocBook messages | and use it as an official translation, so we would have to have a | valid filename (this is other problem: Windows compatibility) and | include it in DocBook. dbl1ptbr is a valid filename. If you prefer dbl1pt_br, that's OK by me, too. I've long since given up supporting 8.3 names. All the recent Windows releases allow you to have long filenames. | > This turns out to be remarkably difficult to achieve, which is a | > shame. Basically, you have to make sure that your definitions override | > the definitions loaded in {html|print}/dbl1de.dsl. This basically | > means you have to reproduce the whole {html|print}/docbook.dsl driver file, | > making sure that the right values get loaded. | | Aren't the messages in {html|print} the same? If they aren't, why | there's this difference? If they are, why are they duplicated? I made | a comparison between the files and what I got was this: There are a few extra messages in the HTML versions. | -(define (gentext-pt-nav-home home) | - (make sequence (literal "Home"))) | | </style-specification-body> | </style-specification> | [godoy@nexus godoy]$ | | IMHO, these definitions in the print version wouldn't make sense BUT, | as they aren't used, they could be there so that we could have a | single file instead of two. It would make translator's life easier | (and reduce disk space used). Yes, putting them in the same place would make more sense, I guess, but the vast majority of the translation stuff is in the .ent file, so it isn't as bad as it might seem at first. | Just to remember: ;-) I want to do that with "my" pt_BR version. :-) Send me the pt_BR version of dbl1pt.ent and I'll make it part of the official distrib ;-) Cheers, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | He would like to start from http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | scratch. Where is scratch?--Elias Member, DocBook Editorial Board | Canetti
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