Re: Further queries re. manual vs level 1

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

On 30/12/2005, at 11:46 PM, Frans Pop wrote:

> On Friday 30 December 2005 13:41, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> > I need to compare them, because it's very easy to translate the same
> > words and get a slightly different string, and I don't want the user
> > unable to find the option or menu item as quoted.
>
> You will not find these strings in the installer.
>
> For things like this, you may need to look at the context. If you  
> search
> in the xml source for the English version of the Manual, you will find
> this in en/boot-new/boot-new.xml. The section containing these  
> paragraphs
> is marked 'arch="m68k"'. The section is thus architecture specific  
> (for
> systems with a Motorola 68000 processor).
>
> This corresponds to this page of the manual for m68k:
> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.m68k/ch07s01.html#id2539830

Yes.
> These commands are thus architecture specific. They are probably  
> used when
> the system is booted to interact with the firmware and thus they  
> should
> probably not be translated as the firmware is probably [1] not  
> translated
> either, so users will actually need to enter these commands in  
> English.

That's awkward. :(
> You will find more situations where actual commands or interaction  
> with
> firmware or architecture specific bootloaders or even very specific
> programs is used. If you are unsure if these have been translated,  
> it is
> best to leave the commands in the manual untranslated as well (but  
> maybe
> add a vi description if you know enough about it to do so safely).

Thanks for explaining this. If I can't find the command or phrase in  
the D-I level 1 file, I'll leave it untranslated, but append an  
explanation. That's probably ;) the best compromise for now.

However, as I've just said in my reply to Miroslav, I consider it a  
priority to translate _all_ the installation software for Debian. I  
hope to catch up, and thus be able to reduce, at least, the number of  
untranslated references in the manual.
> [1] note the nice triple usage of probably here :-)

Yes, probability is leaning heavily in one direction. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
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