On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 02:01:26AM +0200, Pierre-Henri Boinnard wrote: > > Hello, > > I think it would ease and clarify the translation work if a version > stamp is included in each document. > > What's your opinion ? Well, when I was head of the LyX Documentation Project waaaay back when, I intended that the latest, official version of the docs would have the same version as the rest of LyX. When we reached a point where the stable version of LyX froze, but we kept going with official doc-releases, we *could* tack on another number, e.g. 1.0.3.4 for the 4th version of the docs after v1.0.3 of LyX. During the Great Doc Rewrite of the v0.10.* series, I did incremental releases of the docs with a date attached: yymmdd. A word to all our translators: Stick with whatever's packaged in an *official* stable release when it comes to the LyX documentation. Don't try to keep up with the changes in the English version every pre-release. They'll settle down as of the official release. Additionally, if you're translating off of version i.j.k of LyX, don't automatically jump to i.j.k+1 --- finish whatever section you're translating first. It is unlikely that sections will heavily rearrange themselves without very loud prior warning, so this strategy is always a safe one. Once you've finished translating that section you're working on, *then* start working from ver. i.j.k+1, so that you have less cleanup work to do after the fact. Even then, remember that you should be translating the stablest docs *first*. Make life easy for yourself. -- John Weiss
