Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday, 2009-02-13 at 16:40 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:

> Le vendredi 13 février 2009, à 03:27 +0100, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
> > As a translator, I can tell you that it is quite difficult (for me) to
> > translate a manpage, because there is no useful manpage writing program -
> > ie, one that does not require the writer to be a programmer.
>
> You can use po files:
>  http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/
> (can and should, I guess ;-))

Do you know of any project that uses po files for manpages? I have seen 
none. If you know of one I could have a look.

The developpers of each project have to do the changes first, 
create the .pot files, scripts, tools... translators can not do that.

But I doubt po files are appropiate. You can not add/modify the format 
(this word is *bold*, for instance. Or indent here.). The po format is 
"fine" for programs, but I don't see it as appropiate for free text.

I don't see that addressed in the link you posted? No samples. Just a 
proposal.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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