Thomas Diehl wrote: > Hi, > > I just got a mail from our German FAQ translator that he has to give up on > completing his work because of the extremely specialized stuff in the > printing glossary. Since PO translations
Sorry -- what are PO translations? > have to be at 100% for the XML > conversion this basically means that we either lose _all_ the work being done > on FAQ translation or use an ugly workaround by copying the original strings > over to the translations, making it a mix of German and English strings. > > After looking at the printing glossary myself I would strongly suggest to > move > it out of the FAQ I wrote the glossary. I know were to find it in KDE-3. I don't see any relation to any FAQ. I only know it as a glossary. I didn't move it into any FAQ nor do I know anything about anybody doing so. What are you talking about, where do I find it? > and keep it entirely separate. While I appreciate the > wealth of information it provides and I personally find its contents very > interesting (after all I'm in the printing business myself) it is certainly > not what I would call "Frequently Asked Questions" I didn't call it such a thing; here it is in the "glossary" and that's were it belongs. It explains a lot of special phrases, words and expressions that are mentioned in the KDEPrint Handbook. > like the others (ie: > questions of ordinary users). See typical examples below. > > Regards, > > Thomas > > +++++ > Easy Software Products > > Mike Sweet's company, which has contributed a few substantial > software products towards the Free Software community; amongst them > the initial version of <ulink url=\"http://gimp-print.sf.net/\";>Gimp- > Print,</ulink> the <ulink url=\"http://www.easysw.com/epm/\";>EPM > software packaging</ulink> tool and <ulink url=\"http://www.easysw. > com/htmldoc/\">HTMLDOC</ulink> (used by the \"Linux Documentation > Project\" to build the PDF versions of the HOWTOs) -- but most > importantly: <ulink url=\"http://www.cups.org/\";>&CUPS;</ulink> (the > 'Common &UNIX; Printing System'). ESP finance themselves by selling > a commercial version of &CUPS;, called <ulink url=\"http://www. > easysw.com/\">ESP PrintPro,</ulink> that includes some professional > enhancements. > > ++++++ > > Foomatic > > Foomatic started out as the wrapper name for a set of different > tools available from <ulink url=\"http://www.linuxprinting.org/ > \">Linuxprinting.org</ulink> These tools aimed to make the usage of > traditional Ghostscript and other print filters easier for users and > extend the filters' capabilities by adding more command line > switches or explain the driver's execution data. Foomatic's > different incarnations are &CUPS;-O-Matic, PPD-O-Matic, PDQ-O-Matic, > LPD-O-Matic, PPR-O-Matic, MF-O-Matic and Direct-O-Matic. All of > these allow the generation of appropriate printer configuration > files online, by simply selection the suitable model and suggested > (or alternate) driver for that machine. More recently, Foomatic > gravitated towards becoming a \"meta-spooling\" system, that allows > configuration of the underlying print subsystem through a unified > set of commands (however, this is much more complicated than > KDEPrint's &GUI; interface, which performs a similar task with > regards to different print subsystems). >
