On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> In any refresh of the XO manual (Help Activity), I would very much >> appreciate if some structural choices could be made to facilitate the >> internationalization of the text > > Agreed on the general goal. My understanding is that the Help activity > is assembled from content from several manuals about sugar and > activities, created and edited at FLOSS Manuals. > > I suspect that FLOSS Manuals has a means to maintain translated > versions, not sure how well it works, but several existing manuals > offer alternative language versions. > > Maybe the FLOSS manuals platforms is terminally borked in this regard, > I honestly hope not. Because Pootle is not suited for this style of > documentation -- we sure want something wiki-ish that handles > paragraphs, tables, embedded images...
Last I checked, the FLOSS Manual i18n system was very awkward to use. There are some XML-based i18n systems I looked at when we were first getting started, but it seems that PO files still are the way to go. regards. -walter > > cheers, > > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel