Documentation proposal
Brian J. Tarricone
bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon May 4 21:39:24 CEST 2009
Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>
> I've just read Mike's mail on xfce-i18n. If translators feel that
> they are more comfortable with rst2xml + xml2po + xml2rst rather than
> translating the docs by creating a copy of the original english docs,
> that's fine with me. I'm not (really) a translator so I'm not in the
> position to make this decision - translators should decide here.
>
> It seems complicated to me though. reST doesn't support looking up
> strings from .po files AFAIK, so we'd have to deal with the
>
> - the original docs
> - the XML generated with rst2xml.py (because we'll probably need it
> to generated translated docs)
> - a bunch of .po files.
So then the question is... what do we get with reST that we don't get
with docbook? Why change?
-b
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