Hello,
The Wesnoth 1.12 release announcement is now *string-frozen* and ready for
translators to work on it. As you probably know after reading Ivanovic's
email, we are going to have a second release candidate this Friday 24th of
October; and then it's our hope that we won't need a third RC and Wesnoth
1.12.0 gold will be tagged on November 1st, and officially announced about a
week later to give time to packagers to build and test the game, and to allow
translators to catch up with the announcement's translations as well.
You can download the .po files from the wesnoth.org/start/1.12/po/ [1] dir on
the website, or directly from the wesnoth/website Git repository [2]. The
English (US) version of the release announcement has been generated already
and is also available for you to see [3].
1: http://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.12/po/
2: https://github.com/wesnoth/website/tree/master/start/1.12/po
3: http://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.12/index.en.html
Although existing translations from 1.10 are included in the .po files (pretty
much all of them fuzzied), we changed the announcement's contents and
structure *a lot* for this occasion, also adding support for small resolution
devices.
Thus, there are a few points you need to be aware of:
* Get familiarized with the English version's look and feel first! This is
*really* important since it gives you an idea of how the text is laid out
along with the screenshot thumbnails and other elements.
* The intro section *must* be brief and lead people into reading the main
contents.
* A string that's part of the intro section includes entities (non-
breaking space). These are used to prevent the name of the game from being
split into separate lines to fit on small screens, a problem that affects
the intro section in particular due to its larger font size.
* The "Download Now!" string *SHOULD* fit within a small space, otherwise the
button gets scaled horizontally to fit -- so try to keep its character
count low. Also, only the contents within the opening and closing <a> tags
should be translated -- in particular, you MUST* leave the id and href
attributes intact for this specific entry.
* Link URLs (as in `<a href='http://www.wesnoth.org/>`) should be left intact
in translations, except for the manual URL, which you may replace
accordingly if a translated manual for your language is available.
Translated .po catalogues should be sent directly to Ivanovic. Only .po files
that have been at least 85% translated will produce working HTML pages on the
website, which you can later check on your browser. We will try to regenerate
the HTML files every time you submit your translations.
--
Regards
Ignacio R. Morelle <shadowm>
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