Joe, I do agree that it would be better if the translations started from alpha onwards - that way at least all the main content should be fully edited and we won't be changing niggly things.
But I don't want to turn away the two people who have offered their help - surely there must be something they can do to help in the meantime? On 1/5/10, Joe Burgess <joemburg...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is an interesting issue, There is not built in way to do > translations at all in latex, so we will have to figure that out. I will > look into it, but it might require that we just have separate branches > for diff languages. I am not familiar enough with bzr to figure out if > there is a way to branch something, and then every no and then pull in > new files as the English version gets updated. > > The issue is because we are doing so much work right now, and everything > is so fluid it is very hard to have the translators work. Nothing is > edited and so little changes will keep happening to the main document. > So it would be best if the translations don't start until after we are > pretty much done, but of course we don't want to lose the steam we have now. > > So, does anyone have any ideas? > > --Joe Burgess > CMU Information Systems '12 > (703) 402-9206 > PGP key 645EF64E > > On 01/04/2010 06:43 AM, Benjamin Humphrey wrote: >> Hi Anwar, >> >> At the moment we haven't actually set up translation support with >> LaTeX and Launchpad Rosetta - but this is a top priority and we should >> have this up and running hopefully before the end of this week. >> >> In the mean time, perhaps you could get the current branch revision >> and start translating chapters 1, 2 and 3 into plain text so that when >> we do get the translation support running it will be very easy to just >> transfer it across. >> >> Thanks, >> Benjamin >> >> On 1/5/10, Anwar Mohammed <zer...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> i think i can help with this project >>> i am Arabic (native) so i can help in translating this manual >>> -- >>> This message was sent from Launchpad by the user >>> Anwar Mohammed (https://launchpad.net/~zero-n) >>> using the "Contact this team" link on the Ubuntu Manual Team team page. >>> For more information see >>> https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual >>> Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> > > -- Benjamin Humphrey Ubuntu Manual Project Leader Dunedin, New Zealand http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual www.interesting.co.nz www.benjaminhumphreyphotography.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
