On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > John H Palmieri wrote: >> I just noticed that there are some differences between the English and >> French tutorials: first, they're written in totally different >> languages. >> >> No, sorry, just kidding. Actually, some paragraphs have been added to >> the English version without corresponding changes to the French >> version, like the section on "Solving Equations Numerically" in >> tour_algebra.rst, and I think some things in distributed.rst. I >> haven't done an exhaustive search; maybe the right thing to do is to >> see when the French translation was made and then see what changes >> have been made to the English version since then. >> >> How important is it that these documents stay synchronized? If it's >> important, how should this be managed? Are there any francophones who >> would like to volunteer to make a translation whenever the English >> version is changed? >> >> John > > Having worked on a chess program which supports a dozen languages, I > think it is next to impossible to keep them all syncronised. I note > Wolfram Research only have Mathematica for English, Chinese and > Japanese. They have not bothered with any of the common European languages. > > Whilst I applaud efforts to have translations, I think all such > translations should make it clear that in most cases, the English > editions will be most accurate and up to date. It's simply not > practical, unless there are paid translators, to do such a task. A > Wolfram Reserach employee told me it is very expensive to maintain > non-English versions of Mathematica.
I think you are being too discouraging and negative. What if somebody pops up and volunteers to do exactly this for French/English for Sage for free? Then your statement "It's simply not practical... unless paid" is proven false. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
