[Qgis-community-team] Questions about translation

[Otto Dassau]

Am Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:43:44 +0200
schrieb MORREALE Jean Roc <jr.morreale at enoreth.net>:

> Le 26/08/2010 09:29, Otto Dassau a écrit :
> > Am Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:00:56 +0300
> > schrieb Alexander Bruy<alexander.bruy at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> we start translating QGIS User Guide to Russian. And there is first
> >> question about process.
> >> Some source files may contain text like this
> >>
> >> \index{vector layers!ESRI shapefiles}
> >> \index{shapefiles}
> >> \index{ESRI!shapefiles}
> >> \index{SHP files}
> >>
> >> As I understand, this is entries for index. Should we translate this
> >> entries or leave them in English?
> >> I look at the original English PDF, but can't find any index. Then I
> >> look at the user_guide.tex and find
> >> next comments
> >>
> >> %\input{literature}
> >> %\input{index} untested, remind me to check it when the 1.5 release is
> >> flagged
> >
> > yes, seems to be missing. I guess Jean Roc commented the index in the
> > style file when we migrated to pdflatex. If he manages to make them work
> > again, it would of course make sense to translate the Index files to
> > Russian as well.
> >
> > It is not commented, because we don't want to use it anymore. It is just
> > not migrated yet.
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Otto
> 
> The index has never been used in previous versions so I didn't pay much 
> attention to it and also because the search capabilities of most pdf 
> readers make it more or less useless. But as a paper version is in work 
> I'll have a look at it, my advice for translation is to setup a specific 
> wiki page where each of your contributors can write how he exactly 
> translated it (to prevent the multiplication of index items).

uups - you are right, it is not included in the last xx english user
guides. I added it to the german translations but don't remember why not
for the english - mmh. I think we should try to (re)activate it for the next
upcoming versions, it is a useful feature I think.

Regards,
 Otto 

> regards,
> Jean Roc