[docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] Internationalization

[Camille Bégnis <camille at mandrakesoft dot com>]

Le lun 05/01/2004 à 22:20, Jeff Beal a écrit :
> I don't know of any true "common practice" with this problem.  At my 
> last job, we worked with a translation company, and I'm not sure how 
> they managed it.  (From what I could deduce, I don't think they did 
> particularly well.  I heard them saying something about importing the 
> XML into RTF -- including tags -- and then using basic text comparison 
> functionality.)
> 
> I haven't ever used it, but the Borges project 
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/borges-dms/) is a content management 
> system aimed at solving exactly this sort of problem.  If you search the 
> list archives, you should be able to find some relevant information on 
> Borges.

Hi Jelmer,

Indeed Borges should help you with all that. Borges is now getting
mature and stable, and we are willing to help you implementing it for
your needs.

Camille.

> Jeff Beal
> 
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm one of the people working on the documentation for the Samba
> >project (www.samba.org). All our documentation is in Docbook/XML and
> >we're happily using xsltproc with various stylesheets to generate
> >HTML, PDF, PS, nroff and text output.
> >
> >Recently some people have started to translate the documentation to
> >German and French. I did a bit of searching on internationalization in 
> >docbook, but I haven't been able to find much. Should we just keep 
> >seperate trees for all available languages? 
> >
> >Ideally, we would like to be able to generate a document with that uses 
> >(for example) French, where available, and English for all paragraphs
> >where there is no translation yet. Also, it would be very useful for
> >the translators to be able to see what parts of their translation are
> >outdated. 
> >
> >Is there a common practice for such situations? Anyone struggling with
> >the same problem?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Jelmer Vernooij
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
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