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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
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Cc: Justin Clift <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:17:42 -0300
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:11:35AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Euler, Alvaro,

> > If the text could be automatically generated from a DocBook source, then
> > the translation could be handled by the same mechanism the KDE guys use:
> > a Docbook -> PO -> Docbook tool.  Translator don't have to know HTML;
> > they just use KBabel or gtranslator, etc.  That's the theory at least ...
> 
> This is a fine idea if we can come up with a tool which is available on all 
> major platforms: win95, winNT/2k, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD.   Otherwise, a web 
> form will be a *lot* easier to manage.

Personally, as a seasoned translator ;-), I find a web form practically
unusable compared to a PO catalog editor.  I think the pgAdmin guys have
some indication of a program that works on Windows.  I dunno about Mac
OS X.  Gnome and KDE both have good tools that work on Linux, BSD and
some others.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Aprende a avergonzarte más ante ti que ante los demás" (Demócrito)

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