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Subject: Re: [docbook] Managing translations
Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com> writes: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:37:57PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > [ Please CC replies to me. ] > > Hi, one of the Apache Rivet users just supplied us with a complete > > translation of the documentation in Russian. Wow! As happy as I am > > to have received this donation, I'm now faced with learning how to > > manage it as quick as possible. For instance: > > 1) How to attempt to keep the two files coordinated in some way? > A revision control system like CVS is essential. You must be able > to record author comments regarding editorial changes of the English > files to know if they require updating in other languages. Noting > that a file's modification date has changed is not enough > information, since rearranging a line break will generate a diff. It's in CVS, of course... > Also, you can record which version of an English file was sent to > translation. And when the Russian file comes back, you can record in > its comment which English version it was based on. Thanks. These sorts of 'best practices' are exactly what I'm looking for. > > 2) Maybe this falls a bit outside the scope of this list, > > but... how do I go about automatically generating properly named > > HTML files (introduction.ru_UTF.html or whatever it is)? I use > > xsltproc. > If you want all of your Russian HTML files to be named > *.ru_UTF.html, then set the stylesheet parameter html.ext to > ".ru_UTF.html" at runtime, and set use.id.as.filename to 1. Perfect - thanks a million, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/
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