[Journal] Translation of the journal

[Paul Kelly]

Hello list
(my first contribution although I was auto-subscribed at the start and 
have been lurking ever since - apologies for having too much else on to 
contribute anything to the new journal so far)

On Mon, 28 May 2007, Yves Jacolin wrote:

> Le Mercredi 23 Mai 2007 17:34, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) a écrit :
>> How...
>> The Journal has source code managed in a subversion code repository,  
>> as latex text files.  Does anyone have ideas for the best way to  
>> handle translated code in SVN?  I would like to keep it all in SVN  
>> alongside the english version - perhaps as just another folder, or  
>> are there special ways within svn that would be helpful to use?  
>> Perhaps some kind of parallel branch that would allow people to  
>> easily compare one language with the original english.  I'm new at  
>> svn, so looking for any ideas.  Let's figure this out before you do  
>> too much.
>>
>> The other main questions is whether we need translators to handle the  
>> latex code or not.  I think the english editorial team can help  
>> compile the results but won't have time to copy/paste/convert raw  
>> text into latex for translators.  What do others think?
>
> Hi,
>
> Here a first experience about translating OSGeo journal. Some people
> translated some article and did not catch anything about LateX. They only
> change the english sentences into french. So easy ... But I think that one
> langage manager need to check that all is ok, and that he need to knwo a
> liitle bit about LaTeX.
>
> Another problem may occurs, an encoding problem. Hopefully, files seems
> encoded in utf-8 so it is good to manage langage specification.

It is my understanding that all LaTeX files use ASCII encoding. Accented 
characters are encoded using escape sequences such as \'e for é, \^a for 
â, \"o for ö, \cc for ç and so on. So there would be no need for managing 
encoding - all the source files can just be kept as ASCII. And that would 
also make it easy for all the typeset final versions in different 
languages to all be generated by the same person, somebody who would have 
special responsiblity for that and could ensure quality control - I think 
that it seems important to have an official "source" of the newsletter 
rather than different language versions being generated by different 
people - I feel there is a danger there that the translated versions could 
be regarded as only "semi-official" if they are not published from the 
same source as the English version?

I hope this is some help towards clarifiying the discussion and doesn't 
confuse things!

best regards,

Paul

>
> For the SVN, I propose to create one directory for each langagne (one for
> english, anothers for french, italian, spanish, ...). It will allow to use
> something like svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/volume_1/fr to
> download french OSGeo journal. But I am not a SVN guru (just know how use
> it :-/) !
>
> The process for french translation is :
> * select an article, and note his/her name on the wiki (a special page was
> created for this voulme)
> * the translator send back the article
> * someone choose to read and correct the translation, the file is hosted
> outside the wiki in a temporary website, then send it back to the translator
> manager (Me)
>
> I will create all the PDF files and comit to the SVN (if this is the process)
> or send the file to someone who can comit.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yves Jacolin
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