Personally, I would like this information available in Dutch, and then let people who can translate it into other languages directly from the Dutch. That would make all translations as close as possible to the Dutch version. (A translation of a translation is not going to be as accurate as a translation from the original language.)
Dan On Saturday 16 September 2006 08:26 am, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > I think there are already a number of documents translated from the > French, not from Authors, but from OOo, but I may be wrong. > > There is no need to first translate to English and then to > translate to other languages, in the case you mention, there are a > number of people who can translate directly from Dutch into French > (translators, but also bilingual people from Belgium for ex). > > On 16 sept. 06, at 16:41, Jo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On OOocon2006 the Dutch speaking people got together and there is > > course material from the city of Utrecht that they would want to > > set free if we ask them. The person who can ask them only wants > > to do so if we effectively do something with this material. To me > > the best option would be to post it as source material on the > > Dutch part of OOoAuthors, so at least it doesn't get lost. Then > > it can be translated into English and from there it can be > > translated further to all other languages. What do you think > > about this? It's course material and not documentation. So it > > wouldn't mean that we are creating parallel material to what is > > already available. Maybe to make a decision on this, you need > > some kind of sample. I'm not sure if we can ask a chapter at > > random, that I would subsequently translate into English. First I > > would like to know if in principle we should bother to ask about > > it. > > > > Jo > > Jean-Christophe Helary
