Status on HgBook

Augie Fackler lists at durin42.com
Thu Nov 4 10:01:24 CDT 2010


On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 23:27 +0100, Romain Pelisse wrote:
>>> Funny thing, I wrote my email thinking that you might have taken over
>>> the hgbook (as you are know working on Mercurial full time if I
>>> remember correctly). Anyway, thanks for this extra work on your part.
>>>
>>> Well, the french translation could be easily added. I just pulled
>>> your repository (a mere clone of Bos's one), and we are still in
>>> think.
>>>
>>> So if you don't mind pulling from
>>> https://bitbucket.org/rpelisse/hgbook-fr you should get our work on
>>> translating the hgbook in french.
>>
>> Hmm. I guess this is the way things have been done with es/, ja/, and
>> it/ so far. But it really strikes me as impossible to keep in sync
>> once when we start changing en/.
>
> Yeah, I agree -- copying the files is only good for a one-shot
> translation.
>
>> Also, it seems we've grown a gettext-based Chinese translation in po/.
>> Perhaps the i18n guys can chime in here on the best way forward.
>
> I want to do two things:
>
> 1. convert the book from the ugly Docbook XML syntax to ReST syntax,
>   which I find more light-weight. That makes it easier for both the
>   editors and the translators.

I'm not sure that's a good move - ideally we'll be able to get a new
dead tree edition out some day, and I think publishers are best set up
to handle Docbook.

>
> 2. translate it just like we translate the help topics in Mercurial.
>   When we split on paragraph boundaries (blank lines) we wont
>   invalidate more that a single paragraph when editing a given line.
>
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