The FAQ and Tour Guide from within the manual have the most value. It
is a huge undertaking to attempt to translate the whole manual, and
personally I think too much. The likely outcome is a very incomplete and
patchy translated manual - unless several translators are working on
each translated language.
The alphamanual translations of pages that have been done are visible to
Google, so people searching for answers in their own language should
find them. They are not wasted. Also, support people can and do point
users at the FAQ and Tour Guide, e.g. when we get requests for the
manual in other languages at Facebook. They are useful, even if the
entire manual has not been translated.
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If we get translations of FAQ and Tour Guide, we may progress on to
being able to create custom language specific pdfs of FAQ + Tour Guide,
in a few languages, that users can download, and which we can host on
FossHub audacity.
I have recently finished part 1 of a project to allow a stand alone pdf
version of the manual, or sections of it, to be created. You can see
how that looks in the experimental (English) pdf of the 2.2.0 manual
which can be downloaded here:
https://www.fosshub.com/DarkAudacity.html
Conversion from wiki to pdf is now automated, so with some work we could
do it for other languages too. If Greek has more translated pages in
the wiki than other languages, it can be a bigger pdf manual.
BUT I do not think we are ready for that until we can also include
translated screenshots too. With Peter (on the manual) I have been
working at automating collection of screenshots. That is not ready
yet. Lots of work to do still. However, when it is ready we would be
able to collect translated screenshots (using the .po files), so that
the wiki pages and pdf manual would have translated screenshots too.
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The .po files are the most important translation.
If the wiki translations of the manual do progress, then I favour the
pdf route to give them more visibility.
--James.
On 11/21/2017 10:45 AM, ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ Σ wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to know what is the use of translating the manual since nobody can
see it in the app? or I miss something?
Bye
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