On Thursday 05 June 2003 20:02, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > Given that Andreas was unable to post his message following this thread, > and instead he opened several new threads, which we would be unable to > join, I am doing what I have asked him to do: "use reply all". > > Here is the message he tried to send to us: > | I've written a very practical PHP book, that introduces that great > | script language, PHP. That part of the book I've writte is about 250 > | Pages and that part of the book containing the reference (funktion > | List) is about 200 Pages. But I wouldn't like to publish the whole > | function list. That what I would like to publish is : the reference > | of: > | 1. Array Functions > | 2. Date Functions > | 3. Filefunctions I/O Functions > | 4. Math Functions > | 5. MySQL Functions > | 6. Stringfunctions > | 7. Var. Functions > | 8. Session Handling > | 9. Grafik Functions GD Modul > | 10. Reg Ex > | 11 Errorhandling > | 12 Functionhandling > | > | And I only would like to publish the German version not the English > | Version !!! > | Could I do that ? > > My question on what he would like to repusblish is only implicitly > answered, he said nothing about the content he would like to republish, > but as it seems to me half of the book would be from the German PHP > manual (200 pages), so it won't be just a list, as he suggested but a > full documentation. > > Now the question is what the English authors and the German translators > think about a book containing part of the manual as one half of the > content of it.
As one of the German translators (don't know about other people opinions): First of all: the German trans might be particular outdated and therefore plain misleading/wrong. Publishing in a printed book seems not a good idea to me, pointing to the online docs (and the downloadable versions) is always possible. Near 50 % of a book is a huge amount, and I personally have some objections against. I might be wrong, but Andreas never contributed to the German trans and selling half a book based on the work of others is not smart;-) So I am -1 on this. Anyway, contributing to the German trans is always welcome. Friedhelm -- PHP Documentation Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
