On 05/27/2010 10:29 AM, Domingo Becker wrote:
> I can see two downsides though:
>
> 1. It seems wasteful to have multiple copies of exactly the same content
> stored on the server. It will also make maintaining the site much more
> difficult if the site image (web.git) grows to something like 40 times
> its current size. (although this will no longer be a problem when we
> move to a fully automated publishing system shortly)
>
>
No. Just the link.
Yeah, unfortunately just not possible right now. Uploading the book
multiple times is the only way to do it right now :(
> 2. At the moment, when you see a book in a language menu, you
know that
> it is translated. The situation is not so bad for widely translated
> languages, but for less widely translated languages, users will click on
> links and most will be in English; they might not even discover that
> *any* books have been translated into their language, so the hard work
> of the translation team gets lost in a sea of English.
>
>
A new user would open his/her firefox.
It will automatically go to his/her locale, es-ES in my case.
The page for F13 will not show all the books.
And we have a good set of books, that even though in English, they
will surely cover his/her problem.
I don't want him/her to think that we only have the books shown in that page.
The titles are in English, he/she might think that those are all the
books we have.
We have more books than other linux distributions.
Yes, we agree that this is one side of the problem. I was just
expressing the other side -- presenting a list of books to users as if
they were in users' own languages, but when they click on a link, they
discover that the book is in English. They go back to the menu and try
another book, and it's in English again. And another book -- still English!
When I settle on a solution for presenting the titles of the books in
the translated language, this part of the problem should go away :)
Title in menu in English = book in English. Title in menu in Spanish =
book in Spanish :) Nobody should be surprised :)
> In case translators have not realised, the menus are now all
> automatically generated, so it's not possible for us to manually add
> links any more. I will ask the Publican developer today whether some
> kind of "cross linking" is possible. Even if this becomes possible, it
> would solve problem 1 but not problem 2.
>
>
Would you please ask him to generate a .pot file for a chapter?
So, if there are n chapters there will only be n .pot files.
The huge number of .pot files isn't helpful for translation. It even
makes Tx's life harder. It would also prevent string repetition. To
see this issue, just run "msgfmt -c *.po" in es-ES, for example.
This issue is unrelated to Publican; I'll post an explanation in a
separate thread.
> I wonder if a better solution would be for me to add a prominent
notice
> to the "Welcome" page to tell visitors "to see a full list of all
> documentation, change the language to English"?
>
>
Probably, but I prefer the link at the left. The user's attention will be there.
Oh yes, I think we all agree that this is best :) It's just a case of
working out how to make it happen :)
thank you for your time, Rudi.
And thank you for your hard work and perseverance.
I want to extend a special thank you to Domingo and Daniel from the
Spanish team -- for F13 they have really been fighting hard to fight off
technical problems with the Installation Guide in Transifex, and in one
very tragic incident, lost a lot of their work. I'm sure that everyone
reading this can understand the horror of that situation :(
Still, they just picked up with what they had left and kept going.
Thanks guys -- your dedication is truly inspiring!
Cheers
Rudi