With a few (preferably native English-speaking) people collaborating, translating the French book would not be at all hard. Paul, would you be willing to coordinate a little project to do that? We could divide the book up into sections and get volunteers to work on each section (one or more each) and the collate the whole.
I would be willing to do some of it. John On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Thierry Dumont <tdum...@math.univ-lyon1.fr> wrote: > Le 30/10/2010 12:39, Rob Beezer a écrit : >> >> > There's already a nice CC-licensed book about Sage written in >> French: >>> >>> http://sagebook.gforge.inria.fr/ >>> >>> Are there any plans to make a print version and/or translations? >> >> I have "translated" the French Sage book into Sage worksheets. This >> was all very experimental and a bit "quick and dirty" in places (ie I >> probably introduced some errors). Out of respect for the original >> authors' work I have not distributed this version widely. But I do >> intend to return to the project and do the format conversion properly, >> and with more input and involvement from the authors. >> >> But having spent four or five days with the source for the book, and >> with the caveat that my abilities with French are not the greatest, it >> is definitely the best resource out there for a beginner right now >> (IMHO). >> > Thanks (I am one of 10) :-) >> >> If I understand right, Paul Zimmerman organized about 10 authors to >> each write a chapter about using Sage in their specialty. It is a >> model that could be repeated in any language, or perhaps a translation >> of the French work could be translated by a similar team of >> knowledgeable Sage mathematicians. >> > Actually, for the chapter I wrote, programing the examples took a lot of my > time, may be half of it. I am not sure that translating is very complicated: > even if you know spanish for example, but not french, with the help of a > dictionary, it should be possible. > It tooks us about 5 months to write the book, each author correcting at > least one other author; ok, it was not a full time job, but.... And we have > some nice material to help us : a svn server, Makefiles, scripts and so on, > so that "compiling" the book also tests the examples. I do not know what > Paul Zimmerman would say, but this material (Makefile, scripts...) should be > available to any translator. > > Yours > t.d. >> >> Rob >> > > -- > 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 > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
