Re: Started German website translation

[Patrick Strasser]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

>    A script (Perl?) run every now and than and/or when cahnges are
>    made would be nice. You write HTML pages with your contents, the
>    script extracts some data like timestamp and Title/keywords,
>    generates a menu liek we have on the left side, and puts the body
>    of the page in right place. Footer with correct timestamp
>    added. That's it. Sounds simple.  But I can't do Perl, should learn
>    it.
>
> Actually, this might be a bad idea, it just occured to me that the
> Hebrew page is adjusted for people reading from left to right.  Would
> be quite hard to make it adjustable like that.

That's all no problem. You write documents that contain just the 
contents for every language, say index-single.en.html, 
index-single.he.html, index-single.de.html, 
news-single.{en,he,de}.html... The Table of Contents can be generated or 
manually crafted, say toc.{en,he,de}.html.
Right now we have a structure like this:
Table with
    header
toc | contents
table end
footer

We just have to compose header, toc, contents and footer in the right 
way. For Hebrew this means putting toc on the right side of the 
contents. But that's no problem. Moreover Hebrew needs text-direction 
right-to-left. This is currently done by HTML means (attribute dir in 
<table>).
We could also provide a version with TOC without tables, or a 
single-page version or even frames.

I'm currently working on CSS-ing the index page and creating a style 
that looks like what we have now, probably I'll try a second style to 
switch.

Patrick
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