X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D70A09F9AFD for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 15:03:20 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 67995-03 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 15:03:10 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD219F931D for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 15:03:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k48I32E8028334; Mon, 8 May 2006 14:03:02 -0400 (EDT) To: Alvaro Herrera cc: Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, Guillaume LELARGE Subject: Re: French PDF manual In-reply-to: <20060508173628.GC3351@surnet.cl> References: <4459A4BC.7060809@gmail.com> <200605081927.53290.peter_e@gmx.net> <20060508173628.GC3351@surnet.cl> Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera message dated "Mon, 08 May 2006 13:36:28 -0400" Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 14:03:02 -0400 Message-ID: <28333.1147111382@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200605/11 X-Sequence-Number: 3538 Alvaro Herrera writes: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> Well, you can go into the documentation source directory and type 'make >> postgres.xml' to get an XML formatted DocBook file automatically. >> >> It has occasionally been suggested to convert the source of the >> documentation to XML, but while I'm not opposed to that, I don't see >> any specific advantages coming from such a move. > It would allow us to use xml2po to maintain translations, for one. Sounds like you can use that today, if you want to; it's just one extra step. But would it really be helpful on the documentation? I see where .po works for a lot of short, independent error messages, but I don't see it being real useful for big manuscripts. regards, tom lane