[Geany-i18n] wondering about help translation

[Dominic Hopf]

Am Samstag, den 10.04.2010, 19:11 +0200 schrieb Frank Lanitz: 
> Hi, 
> 
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:20:02 +0200
> "Jože Klepec" <joze.klepec at siol.net> wrote:
> 
> > things look great. To do them, we need just a little push.
> 
> *Push* ;)
> 
> > I plan to do Slovenian as I wrote help in next month as I have some 
> > other things to do.
> 
> OK. Great. So we have a project with translating manual to Slovenian,
> Spanish and as I cannot say 'no' at this moment, also to German langauage
> withint the next weeks / month. 
> 
> But I'm not sure at the moment how to do this at best. Currently I can
> think of using a wiki or a git repo to work on the translations on the
> first hand, but also keep the basis version ( = the English one) up to
> date as I suggest to start working with 0.19 devel version of it. What
> do you think about?

At present the manual is the text file geany.txt if I see this right?
Why not just create files geany-es.txt, geany-de.txt and so on? Writing
in reST shouldn't be a problem for the translators, is it? When using
the current geany.txt as basis, you would just have to change the text
and save it as geany-cc.txt (where cc is your countrycode).

Maybe the current geany.txt could be renamed to geany-en.txt so that the
geany.txt will be the index-file you were talking about.

Translators could just begin to write their geany-cc.txt and send it to
Frank or this list, and when something changes on the files, send a
patch accordingly. This is how translations for Geany works at present
and I don't think it's necessary to change it much, unless Frank feels
too stressed with applying patches. :)

Best Regards,
Dominic

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