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. My own experience of technical staff and students in Europe is their English is usually very good. I would have thought, translations to non-European languages would probably be more important that French or German. That might be why Wolfram Research do not bother with any European language other than English. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
