[Qgis-community-team] QGIS 1.6 manual in Japanese

[Yoichi Kayama]

Hi Anne
Hi Otto

Thank you for your advice.
My name is Yoichi Kayama.
I worked about QGIS  as GUI translater  and Manual translater for Japanese.
Translating GUI, I edit the file , then mail it to Werner.
At translating user guide , I ran into some difficulties.
In Japan, We have some version of Latex system, and some kind of
Character code set.

Then we can't decide which Latex and whitch character code , we must use
for  QGIS user guide. Mr Baba ( Fink packager of QGIS) and me tried some
cases .We still have not found a good result.
We could not use Japanese in  PdfLatex. And we coud not use Japanese
in the KomaScript.
I am not familiar with LaTex.
How you create a new Japanese version of the User Guide I am worried.
QGIS users in Japan has increased recently.
I look for in a community of people familiar with the handling of the
Japanese translation and LaTex.

We will open a seminar about FOSS4G on this coming Sunday at Nagoya University.
Where the session will be held on GRASS and QGIS.
　　　　　https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gnagoya/di1hui-mian-qiang-hui

Our local FOSS4G conference has been held annually in only Tokyo and Osaka.
This is a first local FOSS4G event at Nagoya.
I am very fun person to increase the use of QGIS.

Regards
                  Yoichi

2011/12/7 Otto Dassau <dassau at gbd-consult.de>:
> Hi Anne,
>
> great news, I will add the link to the website. At the moment we still use
> latex in git, but we will probably in the near future migrate to rst and that
> might be the solution to also support Japanese fonts.
>
> Please tell Yoichi Kayama that it would be a good idea to join the
> Qgis-community-team list, so we can help and discuss more.
>
> Regards
> Otto
>
> Am Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:36:13 +0100
> schrieb Anne Ghisla <a.ghisla at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello all!
>>
>> The new Charter member Yoichi Kayama has been engaged in Japanese
>> translation of QGIS User manual:
>>
>> http://www.osgeo.jp/user_guide/user_guide.html
>>
>> The OSGeo-Japan community would be honored to see this link among the
>> translations of the manual.
>>
>> Yoichi reports that they switched to HTML due to errors in Latex
>> related to Japanese fonts. What about a new branch on git for Japanese
>> translation?
>>
>> All the best,
>> Anne