Re: [Nano-devel] updates...

[Jean-Philippe Guérard]

Hello!

Le 2006-10-29 00:07:12 +0200, Jordi Mallach écrivait :
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:48:03PM +0200, Jean-Philippe Guérard wrote:
> > Please find attached the updated French man pages :)
> 
> Applied, thanks for the fabulous response time. :)
> 
> I'm wondering, Jean-Philippe, if you have any thoughts about
> po4a-handled manpages.
> 
> You're our first and only manpage translator for now, and I suspect you
> might be maintaining other manpage translations out there. Do you have
> experience translating them using po files? Would it help if I migrated
> nano to po4a? It'd probably help me do ca translations, at least ;)

I have very mixed feelings about po4a.

Cons

 - It adds a level of complexity to the translation process.

 - It makes it easy to translate a document without understanding the 
   document as a whole. This can leads to bad translations, but also can 
   discourage a translator to add some language specific notes.
   
   This is not an issue if the translator is taking its job seriously, 
   but requires more self-discipline from the translator.

 - The disclaimers and copyright information provided as comments
   in the man pages seems to be removed by po4a, which usually violates 
   the man page licence.

Pros

 - It makes it easy to manage man pages with redundant contents, which 
   is the case of the nano man pages.
   
 - The update process will be simplified. You don't need to make a diff 
   of the original file, as this is automatically managed by po4a.
   
 - You use .po file, whose syntax is certainly easier than the man pages 
   syntax. So, translation itself (but not proofreading of the final 
   document) is easier.

Personnally, I don't mind. I'll use the format the nano team decides on. 
If it helps get new man pages translations, why not.

Hope thats helps.

-- 
Jean-Philippe Guérard
http://tigreraye.org