cortesi Wed May 1 08:26:15 2002 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/appendices about.xml
Log:
adding SECT to avoid ppl translating the manual starting from other formats than XML
Index: phpdoc/en/appendices/about.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/appendices/about.xml:1.11 phpdoc/en/appendices/about.xml:1.12
--- phpdoc/en/appendices/about.xml:1.11 Tue Feb 26 05:04:38 2002
+++ phpdoc/en/appendices/about.xml Wed May 1 08:26:15 2002
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.11 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.12 $ -->
<!--
TODO: add manual conventions section (eg. how to read
@@ -196,6 +196,47 @@
<acronym>XML</acronym> source code of this documentation
at <ulink url="&url.php.cvs;">&url.php.cvs;</ulink>. The
documentation is stored in the <literal>phpdoc</literal> module.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="about.translations">
+ <title>Translations</title>
+ <para>
+ The PHP manual is not only available in various formats,
+ it is also available in various languages. The text of the
+ manual is first written in english, then teams of people across
+ the world take care of translating it to thier native language.
+ if a translation for a specified function or chapter has not yet
+ been made, the build system of the manual falls back to the
+ english version of it.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Peoples involved in the translations start from the <acronym>XML</acronym>
+ source code available from <ulink url="&url.php.cvs;">&url.php.cvs;</ulink>
+ and from it they translate to thier mother language. They do
+ <emphasis>not use</emphasis> the <acronym>HTML</acronym>, the plain text,
+ or the <acronym>PDF</acronym> version. It is the build system which takes
+ care of the conversions from <acronym>XML</acronym> to human readable formats.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ if you would like to help translating the documentation to your native
+ language, please get in touch with the translation/documentation team
+ subscribing to the phpdoc mailinglist: send an empty mail to <ulink
+ url="mailto:&email.php.doc.subscribe;";>&email.php.doc.subscribe;</ulink>.
+ The mailing list address is <literal>&email.php.doc;</literal>. State in the
+ message that you are interested in translating the manual to a language
+ and someone will get back to you, helping you start a new language translation
+ or reach the already active documentation team for your language.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ <para>
+ At the moment the manual is available, partly or not, in the following languages:
+ Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian,
+ Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ They all can be downloaded here: <ulink
+url="&url.php.docs;">&url.php.docs;</ulink>.
</para>
</sect1>
