Re: [Gretl-users] Translation of gretl documentation
El Domingo 08 de Febrero 2004 18:21, Cristian Rigamonti escribió:
Hi Allin and friends, having completed the Italian translation of
gretl,
I've started thinking about translating some of its documentation, and I
have a couple of questions (mainly to Allin, but maybe other users will
come up with useful suggestions):
Hello Cristian,
I am translating gretl to Spanish. Apart from the program I have translated
the web pages and the help files. (In a following step I would like to
translate also the data files). It is probably that I am not doing this in a
very efficient way since I have not thought about the practical questions
that you are querying. So I will answer how I have done it:
- I'd start from the web page: can I just download the HTML file
and
translate it, or is there another source document (SGML/XML...) for
it? Is it stored somewhere in the CVS (I've checked, but it doesn't
seem...)?
I downloaded the HTML files and translated them being carefull to do no one
change about formatting, and saving the translated files adding "_es"
("es"
is the code for the spanish language, in your case, "it") to their names. I
"translated" the screenshots as well.
- I'd then go on with the online help files; I've noticed that some
content from the /share/*.hlp files overlaps with the content of the
/doc/chapters/cmdref.xml file (the Manual's "Command Reference"
chapter). I had a look at their CVS logs and noticed that the update
timestamps are quite regular, so I was wondering if the help files
were somehow generated automatically from the xml file (in that case
it would be more efficient to translate the latter).
Really, I did'nt thought about this, so I translated directly the help files.
After two or three updatings I noticed that Allin updates the help files each
time there is a new command or a new tool, but I cannot update the translated
files so frequently, so I asked Allin to leave accessible also the english
help files to the spanish users, so they may use these for reading the
documentation about the new features.
--
Ignacio Díaz-Emparanza
Dpto. de Economía Aplicada III (Econometría y Estadística)
UPV-EHU
http://www.bl.ehu.es/~etpdihei/