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Subject: Re: [docbook] Re: [docbook-comment] internationalisation after 17years
Hi, If that's not too much of a maintenance nightmare, I suggest 2 versions of the schema are published: with and without i18n stuff. Just thinking of newcomers scared by 400+ elements, not all of them very explicitly named. My 2 hazelnuts. Camille. Jirka Kosek wrote: > Norman Walsh wrote: >> [ Forwarding to the docbook@lists.oasis-open.org list because that's >> were actual technical discussion takes place. (Not your fault, >> Michiel.) ] >> >> / Michiel Kamermans <mkamerma@science.uva.nl> was heard to say: >> | Docbook has been around for 17 years, and it's *still* not properly >> | internationalised. I've been waiting for the DocBook 5 specification >> | in the hopes it would follow the W3C ruby annotation used in CJK >> | languages but useful outside this context too, only to see that as of >> | the most recent v5 specification there is still no such thing >> | available in DocBook, making it impossible to write textbooks in >> | English about Chinese or Japanese, or write full texts in these >> | languages for all audiences. >> >> Thank you for this comment. I'm sorry that we weren't made aware of >> this deficiency earlier. I consider proper internationalization a >> critical requirement for DocBook markup. > > Actually, there is customized version of DocBook that is properly > internationalized, see > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-i18n-bp/#docbook > > This customization adds few new attributes and elements from ITS > namespace to improve i18n/l10n support in DocBook vocabulary. Ruby > markup is one of added elements. > > I can imagine that future version of DocBook might directly include > ITS markup or even introduce Ruby elements directly in DocBook namespace. > > And, Michiel, please note that DocBook evolution is driven by > requirements of DocBook users. So if you want to be sure that there is > support for marking-up particular structure, please use the following > page to submit new requirements: > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=384107&group_id=21935&func=browse >
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