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No, this is fine. I will place them back in the "en" directory, and
then we update the documentation guide with this in mind.

Best regards,
Jason


On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Ola Hodne Titlestad
<olatitle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/10/27 Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Howdy. I have managed to modify, I think, the directory structure a
>> bit to make the creation of multilingual version of documents a bit
>> more manageable. I will update the documentation guide soon on exactly
>> what the procedure is. Briefly, all documents for a given language
>> should be placed into the /src/docbkx/XX folder, where XX represents
>> the ISO language code ( I suggest 639-1 unless there are other
>> reasons, but this should match what DHIS2 is using as well). All
>> resources, such as images, should be placed in the /src/resources
>> directory, which has been moved out of the /src/docbkx directory.  I
>> am assuming that maybe the images should be language independent, but
>> am not really sure about this. This is a point for consideration.
>
> Thanks for doing this Jason, good work.
>
> I think images are just as context-bound as the text.
> We've seen from our previous work that It is important to have screen shots
> from the local version in the manual reflecting local data element names,
> reports etc. If this is not too complicated to achieve I would suggest we go
> for this.
>
> Ola
> -----------
>
>>
>> Otherwise, we may need to move the image resources back into a given
>> language directory. Maybe those thinking of creating docs in languages
>> other than English can comment on whether screen shots and the like
>> will need to be language specific.
>>
>> I will try and explain all the changes in the documentation guide, and
>> of course, suggestions/criticisms are welcome.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jason
>>
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