William Stein wrote: > 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
I would not be at all surprised if someone offered to do it. I would be very surprised if they could keep that documentation up to date. The I feel would be a monumental task. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
