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[Helen McCall <wildnfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jonathan,

On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:33 -0500, Jonathan Thomas wrote:

> That's great news that you were able to re-connect with some of your
> extended family.  Did you tell them all about OpenShot?  =)

My cousin Peter is transferring to Ubuntu from windoze. His laptop is
now 100% Ubuntu, but his desktop is still dual booting. There now only
two pieses of software he has to migrate to Ubuntu on. One is his
accounts which he is going through the tedious business of transferring
to gnucash. The other is his genealogical software he uses for his work.
He works as a freelance historian and genealogist for institutions like
the British Library, and thinks he can transfer all this work to Ubuntu!
I've told him about OpenShot, but I don't think he does much filming.


> As far as setting up translations on LaunchPad, the first step is for
> you to get a POT file generated that has ALL of the text you want to
> translate.  I'm not sure how to do that with your XML file, but here
> is the command I use for .glade files:
> 
> xgettext -j -o ~/openshot/main/language/OpenShot/OpenShot_glade.pot
> --keyword=translatable

For future reference; I have now worked out how to get the translations
done on DocBook XML files like the Help files.

The utility xml2po  does the trick! It can generate the .pot file, and
will then merge in all the resulting .po translations when they are
done. So I will be able to setup another translation thingy on the Help
Manual Series and collect up all the .po files to merge into the manual.

I am having less luck with trying to get yelp to index the openshot.xml
file. Unfortunately the Gnome Documentation Project made a readical
change to the methods when they got rid of the scrollkeeper which used
to be used to explicitly index the .omf files. I have been trying the
suggestions I have got from some of the Ubuntu irc channels, but without
success. I am going to have to contact the GDP people directly, to find
out how to index it.

Best wishes, Helen


> Glad to have you back!
> -Jonathan
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Helen McCall
> <wildnfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         Hello Jonathan (and everyone else)
>         
>         Apologies for not being very productive over the last few
>         weeks. As you
>         know my best friend died. After that I had a number of other
>         personal
>         things surface as well including; Inland Revenue making a
>         mistake on my
>         tax return resulting in me apparently owing them more than I
>         had earned,
>         and then a long lost cousin contacting me, and then a long
>         lost Uncle
>         contacting etc, and the general re-gathering of the extended
>         family.
>         
>         I have in the meanwhile found a little time to do things like
>         maintaining the bug-tracker and answers section. I noticed
>         your comments
>         about bugs and wishlist. I hadn't realised that feature
>         requests had to
>         be in the bug tracker to be on the wishlist! So I am not
>         converting any
>         more feature requests to answers. ;-) (I was just trying to
>         keep it all
>         nice and tidy)
>         
>         Right now I am getting back to doing what I was doing when my
>         cousin
>         Peter so pleasantly interrupted.
>         
>         I am running through everything that I had done up to when
>         Annie died,
>         and organising my work again. I should hopefully be productive
>         again by
>         this weekend.
>         
>         I would like some helpful suggestions on how I can setup a
>         translation
>         system for the Help Manual on our Launchpad site.
>         
>         I will also need someone to help with integrating Gnome Help
>         into the
>         main OpenShot Help Menu.
>         
>         Best wishes, Helen
>         
>         
>         
>         
>