Re: [Denemo-devel] Re: Contribution for a French translation

[Nils Gey]

The documentation in Denemo is there but its not in a good shape. Partly 
outdated, all in one page, not really a good structure.
To create a good manual is a big task and I fear its need more than fixing it 
Denemo's case. But any effort would be wasted currently, at least in my eyes. 
There are so many tasks to do and changes to decide that you will never know if 
a manual entry will be true in the near future.

I think the best way to help Denemo, in regards of documentation, is to pick 
out certain interesting things and tasks and describe them on www.denemo.org . 
Its a Wiki, after all. 

Nils

On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:23:26 +0100
Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for your encouraging words. 
> 
> At the moment, the C code needs editing to mark many of the translatable
> strings, so any translation will only be partly effective resulting in a
> strange mixture - en effet du franglais.
> More serious, all the scripted commands have no framework for doing
> translation; I am not sure what we will need to do to achieve that.
> 
> The manual is in quite a cahotic state - new features have not always
> gotten documented, and old documentation can be difficult to move and
> transform to fit. I would hate to see a lot of effort translating
> something that so badly needs re-writing.
> 
> Re-writing the manual would, of course, take a great deal of effort.
> Before tackling that it would, however, be possible and useful to add
> sections describing things that are so far un-documented. The MIDI
> player and MIDI recorder controls, for example.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 06:10 +0000, Ptshaz wrote:
> > Dear Richard,
> > 
> > It's been one year since I am following the development of Denemo with
> > interest. Having working on Finale during my studies in musicology and user 
> > of
> > Linux. Denemo is for me the most promising open source project in its 
> > specific
> > software area and I am really impress about the work you guys are doing.I
> > don't know what a non-programmer could do to help but if you are interesting
> > in, I am willing to work on a French translation of the program, website and
> > documentation. Tell me if it could be helpful and if I could participate in
> > any other way.
> > 
> > Best 
> > 
> > Pierre
> > 
> > 
> > 
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