In case some of you folks would like to participate in this.... Please first coordinate on translate-devel@lists.sourceforge.net which is, indeed, a mailing list I'd recommend you to be suscribed to if interested in the developemtn of good translation tools. ----- Forwarded message from F Wolff <friedel@translate.org.za> ----- From: F Wolff <friedel@translate.org.za> To: translate-devel <translate-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Organization: Translate.org.za Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:58:07 +0200 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.0-4.1mdv2008.1 Subject: [Translate-devel] Virtaal 0.2 rc1, call for translation X-CRM114-Status: Good ( pR: 49.1774 ) Hallo list I am very pleased to announce the first release candidate of Virtaal - an offline translation program built on the powerful API of the Translate Toolkit. "Virtaal" is an Afrikaans play on words meaning "For Language", but also refers to translation. The wiki page for the program is here: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/index I believe many of you will already find it a useful and productive environment to work in. Perhaps some of these features will be attractive to you: - Support for many localisation file formats: Gettext (.po and .mo), XLIFF (.xlf), TMX (.tmx), TBX (.tbx), WordFast TM (.txt), Qt linguist (.ts), Qt Phrase Book (.qph) - Simple layout with fast and easy navigation in the file - Displays comments from programmers and previous translators - Displays context (like msgctxt in PO) - Autocorrect and autocomplete (users of OpenOffice.org should feel right at home) - Copying original string to target string taking your language's punctuation rules into account - Spell checker for source and target text (might not work on all Windows platforms) To try out Virtaal, feel free to have a look at the current snapshot here: http://translate.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ For Windows, I recommend the file called Virtaal....-setup.exe - this contains all the required dependencies. There is also an RPM for Fedora Core and a generic RPM that works for me on Mandriva. Please volunteer if you are able to help with packaging on more platforms. Any help with Mac OSX will be greatly appreciated. In general, you will need - Python 2.4 or later (mostly tested with Python 2.5) - GTK and PyGTK and all their dependencies - The Translate Toolkit version 1.2 with all dependencies (try out the current release candidates at the same URL) - Optionally: gtkspell and pygtkspell (might be packaged as gnome-python-extras or something similar) Please report on your success or issues. As always, our bugzilla server is at http://bugs.locamotion.org/ For those in a hurry to contribute interface translations, feel free to put it in bugzilla. We will probably host the translations on Pootle very soon. The POT file is available here: http://translate.sourceforge.net/snapshots/virtaal-0.2-rc1/virtaal.pot Happy translating! Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/vrot-mango ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Translate-devel mailing list Translate-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-devel ----- End forwarded message ----- --
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