Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:56:00 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question regarding 'placeholders' (Translations) Message-ID: <20040920185600.GE47164@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20040920174828.GH2493@submonkey.net> References: <414C2915.8000309@elvandar.org> <20040920174828.GH2493@submonkey.net>
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--qjNfmADvan18RZcF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 06:48:28PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: >=20 > Well, the "correct" way to do this would be to use the releaseinfo > element in the places concerned - I've attached an example diff for the > French handbook (fr for very mundane reasons that I won't concern anyone > with here). >=20 > What's wrong with this? It doesn't currently produce any output to > clearly differentiate the two. That, however, is a toolchain issue that > could be corrected quite easily. > > What's good about this? Everyone is using the same, correct, way of > marking up non-translated sections/chapters which keeps the sticklers > happy. Even better, everyone can render it whichever way they damn well > please, which keeps the anarchists from upsetting all of the "normals". >=20 > Obviously, I'm not on a translation team (the only other language I > speak well is "foul"), but these are the provisions that DocBook has > made for this situation. Anything else will make transitioning to > anything else a major PITA if/when it ever becomes necessary. > This is a very good idea: *info + correct rendering. And this would let teams to choose what they want/need to put in the *info Marc --qjNfmADvan18RZcF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBTye+81T1MWxkgcoRAnVtAJ9NPefoa5LVRK0dIaM2KGffxibnIgCgnHDV JxtHpz3InUQnpe7J/mBTmdo= =Jwd6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qjNfmADvan18RZcF--
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