[FM Discuss] documentation news from OLPC summit

Daniel James daniel.james at sourcefabric.org
Wed Oct 26 03:18:46 PDT 2011


Hi Tomi,

> What would be extremely useful (maybe you actually meant this) is if you
> could see what kind of updates have been made to the original manual
> since you translated it. I mean there would be a highlighting of the
> things that have changed, so that you could translate only the changes.

Yes, exactly that. This would work best with the side-by-side layout
originally shown on translate.flossmanuals.net, that was awesome.

> Currently this should be done by painstakingly comparing the current
> versions of the original manual and the translation, which is a bit hard.

Right, especially if the original manual is frequently updated by a wide
community of contributors.

Cheers!

Daniel



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