[FM Discuss] audacity hindi localisation update

[sophea]

the conversation has focussed on audacity / manual translation - but
i'll bring up the question of FM too - i rekin that translation of FM
into hindi would most usefully be couched in a broader discussion of
free documentation in the FLOSS community here such as we didn't get
to do via FOSS.in for eg.

i'm going to sit down with the manual as is over the next week or two
and brainstorm a tweak list based on some of the working contexts the
hindi manual will go into and see what can be added.

:)
.s

On 22/01/2008, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> hey!
>
> All this sounds really good. Great news that you are pushing all this
> forward.
>
> On the translation - is Ravikant interested in localising the Audacity
> manual or the FM site? Either is very good news, but on the site-side we
> have some excellent tools now for translation - both site localisation
> and translation of manuals. Do you know which he is considering?
>
> As for the Audacity app translation - the info is here:
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/community/translation
>
> The .po files can be edited with an offline tool or via something like
> Pootle - http://pootle.wordforge.org/
>
> I have a little info on how .po files work in the fm manual :
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/LocalizeIntro
>
> Essentially .po files are text files with strings that you translate.
> The app replaces the source lang with the translated equivalent on the
> fly. So making a new translation only requires a new .po file put in the
> right place (it doesn't need to be compiled into the app).
>
> And as for the additions to the Audacity manual - I would be keen to
> help. I'll be offline for 3 weeks, but after feb 15 or so I can
> contribute. Do you have an idea of what content you are going to add?
>
> :)
>
> adam
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> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 23:26 +0530, sophea wrote:
> > hi all
> >
> > i managed to get more specific timeline on the hindi localisation plan
> > from ravikant at sarai today. the guy he has lined up to translate is
> > busy doing an update of KDE hindi version till march and then he'll
> > start on this. so over the next month i'll be putting on a push to
> > make and additions and updates into the audacity manual that we want
> > make it into the translated version.
> > ravikant also raised the question of translating audacity itself - i
> > feel that this is a bit outside my capacity to make a call on as i
> > don't personally know anyone with that level of familiarity with the
> > audacity code base.
> > any ideas?
> >
> > .sophea
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