Hi Sophie,
The ODF2XLIFF filters in both translate toolkit and WordForge are
broken. They ignore some strings from the source (they do not go into
the XLIFF files) in which there is mark-up. They can be used only for
plain text without any markup, and even them segmentation is not very
good. There are also other problems with them. I-tools does not have
enough working tools either.
Our testing shows that the Okapi framework does a good job for the round
trip, I don't know about other tools.
This is a very important issue, but not easy to solve. We will be
putting some time to fix it, but it will not happen immediately.
Cheers,
Javier
Sophie Gautier wrote:
Hi all,
As promised, I'm going on with the tests concerning the ability to use
Pootle in the translation workflow for documentation. As you may know,
Pootle is able to handle very large projects now thanks to the great
work the team has provided. There is all the tools needed for the
translation process, but also you can assign task and objectives to a
member or a team.
I've worked on the first chapter of the OOoAuthors guide for
beginners. I used WordForge filters [1] to convert the file from .odt
(ODF file format) to .xlf (XLIFF file format). Both are standards, so
it should be easier to have a good conversion. Several tools manage
off line translation for Xliff file format, like WordForge or OmegaT,
there may be others I don't know too.
Rimas has kindly uploaded the file on Pootle [2], creating a new
project for several languages for the beginning. Currently, en_GB fr
hu ko nl oc pt_BR ru zh_CN . Those are the 7 languages for which
libo33 project is fully localized plus hu and nl.
The issue we meet is that the strings appears as needing review
instead of being empty.
If other team wants to give a try, please follow the same process as
for the extensions project, post on the mailing list and Rimas (big
thanks to him :) will take care of your request.
Please, follow up on the l10n list for the moment, we will settle a
more precise workflow once we have solved the issued that may raised
and that we are sure most (I know we miss an offline tool currently
for Mac translators) of the needs to work quietly and efficiently on
the documentation translation.
Thanks for your help in improving the process :)
[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/wordforge2/
[2] http://translations.documentfoundation.org/projects/doc_test/
Kind regards
Sophie
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