>> I thus wonder whether a guy with LLM experience could help with >> updating the German translation of the Notation Reference – or >> rather, generating a complete translation from scratch, since the >> German translation is severely outdated. [...]
> What is the form of the English input, and how much text is it > roughly? In LilyPond's git repository, the top-level input file of the Notation Reference is Documentation/en/notation.tely , which in turn includes files from the directory Documentation/en/notation/ plus some other files (mostly macros and generated documentation files that can be ignored, I think). All files are written in Texinfo https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/index.html and contain additional `@lilypond` blocks and environments (to be handled by the `lilypond-book` python script), which are eventually converted to images (either PNG or PDF files, depending on the output format). The LilyPond code in those blocks would (usually) not change for the German version, but there are strings and comments that should be translated. The German top-level input file is Documentation/de/notation.tely ; translated files should go to directory Documentation/de/notation Additionally, the Notation Reference includes some (but not all) snippets from directory Documentation/snippets These file contain a `texidoc` string that should be translated. These translations go to directory Documentation/de/texidocs > If long it could be somewhat expensive for API LLM, but also an > interesting use case for the capabilities of local LLMs. A possible start could be a translation of file Documentation/en/notation/unfretted-strings.itely (see https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.27/Documentation/notation/unfretted-string-instruments for the HTML version), which is one of the shortest chapters. Unfortunately, building the documentation is quite convoluted; additionally, it currently doesn't work on Windows (to be more specific, there was never a volunteer who tried to make it work on Windows). Details on the building process can be found at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.27/Documentation/contributor/documentation-work > I have experience with both, but not for specialized translations > yet. Great! Werner
