Re: Manpages translation (was Re: debconf template translation)
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:33:29PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:34:06PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:59:14PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > *This* is silly, translators only have to look at English man
> > > pages and see if they are differences, as with any other man page.
> >
> > I think you're missing the point there. The upstream developers don't
> > write manual pages by hand, they write manual pages by automatically
> > processing the runtime help text included in the program. When manual
> > pages are generated using this system it is much more sensible for
> > translators to do the same thing.
>
> And my point is that they do not have to do the same thing: they can
> generate English man pages and translate them like any other man page.
What on earth is the point of wasting time on that when the text that
could generate the translated pages has presumably already been
translated in the ordinary PO files?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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