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...
I need to spend a little bit of time on FLOSSManuals, I'd heard something about hem incorporating booki http://www.booki.cc/ but I have not investigated it extensively since then to see how much of an improvement it is with regards to L10n. L10n of long-form content is an area where I think there are some excellent bits and pieces, but I'm not convinced that there is a really nice end-to-end solution yet. I think very highly of FLOSSManuals as a book publishing platform, but was less than impressed with it's L10n workflow. I am happy that several of the Sugar OLPC boks have been translated, but these have been time-focused efforts requiring a lot of coordination and not amenable to the slower accumulation of collaborative work that characterizes Poolte L10n work. I like also wikislicing as a content collection method and Wikimedia's WikiBook effort has some superb features with respect to content collection and publishing. To the extent that orthologous articles exist across wikis it can also address L10n, essentially by slicing "pre-localized" content. Unfortunately, while the PDF output from WikiBooks is quite beautifully formatted, it's size is large and PDFs are not that easy to edit after the fact. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:TamTamSuite_collection.pdf The ,odt output option from WikiBooks is easier to edit, but I think it has real deficiencies in formatting, and IMHO, is frankly ugly. However, both of these formats produce rather large files compared to simple HTML and an HTML output option is not currently available. My reasoning on requesting availability fo a plain text version is tha tit facilitates bringing the strings to the locali _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel