Author: pfrields
Update of /cvs/docs/translation-quick-start-guide/en_US
In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv4833/en_US
Modified Files:
rpm-info.xml translation-quick-start.xml
Log Message:
- Bump to 0.3.7.5:
* Add information about po/LINGUAS file
* Remove unnecessary admonitions
Index: rpm-info.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/docs/translation-quick-start-guide/en_US/rpm-info.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.12 -r1.13
--- rpm-info.xml 28 Jul 2007 21:27:33 -0000 1.12
+++ rpm-info.xml 29 Jul 2007 23:41:08 -0000 1.13
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
<title>Translation Quick Start Guide</title>
<desc>Quick start guide to providing translations on the Fedora
Project.</desc>
<changelog order="newest-first">
+ <revision date="2007-07-29" number="0.3.7.5">
+ <author worker="PaulWFrields"/>
+ <details>Add information about LINGUAS and remove unnecessary
admonitions</details>
+ </revision>
<revision date="2007-07-28" number="0.3.7.4">
<author worker="PaulWFrields"/>
<details>Add information on branch modules and testing
changes</details>
Index: translation-quick-start.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/docs/translation-quick-start-guide/en_US/translation-quick-start.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.20
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -r1.20 -r1.21
--- translation-quick-start.xml 28 Jul 2007 21:27:33 -0000 1.20
+++ translation-quick-start.xml 29 Jul 2007 23:41:08 -0000 1.21
@@ -590,14 +590,11 @@
<section id="sn-translating-with-apps">
<title>Using Translation Applications</title>
- <note>
- <title>Creating the <filename
class="directory">po/</filename>
- Directory</title>
- <para>
- If the <filename class="directory">po/</filename> directory
- does not exist, you can create it and the translation
- template file with the following commands:
- </para>
+ <para>
+ If the <filename class="directory">po/</filename> directory does
+ not exist, you can create it and the translation template file
+ with the following commands:
+ </para>
<screen>
<command>mkdir po</command>
@@ -605,7 +602,6 @@
<command>make pot</command>
</screen>
- </note>
<para>
To work with a <filename class="extension">.po</filename> editor
like <application>KBabel</application> or
@@ -625,25 +621,16 @@
</step>
<step>
- <para>
- In the <filename>Makefile</filename>, add your translation
- language code to the <varname>OTHERS</varname> variable:
- </para>
-
-<screen>
-<computeroutput>OTHERS = it
<userinput><replaceable>pt_BR</replaceable></userinput></computeroutput>
-</screen>
-
- <note>
- <title>Disabled Translations</title>
- <para>
- Often, if a translation is not complete, document editors
- disable it by putting it behind a comment sign (#) in
- the <varname>OTHERS</varname> variable. To enable a
- translation, make sure it <emphasis>precedes</emphasis>
- any comment sign.
- </para>
- </note>
+ <para>To add your locale, you must locate and change the
+ appropriate locale list. Some documents are using the
+ <filename>po/LINGUAS</filename> file, as standardized in the
+ GNOME project, to track locales. Some documents have not
+ been updated to this standard yet. If you find the module
+ you are translating has not been updated, notify the &FDP;
+ or file a bug using &BZ;.</para>
+ <para>In the <filename>po/LINGUAS</filename>, add your
+ translation language code to the list. <emphasis>Keep the
+ list in alphabetical order.</emphasis></para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
@@ -696,19 +683,16 @@
<command>cvs ci -m <replaceable>'Message about
commit'</replaceable>
po/<replaceable>pt_BR</replaceable>.po</command>
</screen>
- <important>
- <title>Committing the <filename>Makefile</filename></title>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Do not commit the <filename>Makefile</filename>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Do not commit the <filename>Makefile</filename>
until your translation is finished.</emphasis> To do so,
- run this command:
- </para>
+ run this command:
+ </para>
<screen>
<command>cvs ci -m 'Translation to <replaceable>pt_BR</replaceable>
finished' Makefile</command>
</screen>
- </important>
<caution>
<title>Do Not Make Manual POT Changes</title>
<para>Authors and editors generate the POT file from the
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