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[Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Yes it's something like what you've described. LaTeX is way of storing
and writing documents that keeps the bzr merging working properly.
It's an alternative to just using plain text, as it provides a lot
more options and formatting.

What you're referring to "back in the day" is probably Launchpad
Rosetta - the translation system that Launchpad uses. Rosetta is
great, however it doesn't play nice with LaTeX - which is what we're
using.

This week I am going to work out how we can build in translation
support for our Project.

Cheers,
Benjamin

On 1/5/10, RJ Quirarte <qcuchulain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the information and time guys, let me see if I am getting
> this right, if latex is mainly for the final product (honestly I do
> not know what exactly latex does) then this is what we ("we" as in me
> and whoever is translating) can leave for when the main work is done,
> in the mean time probably getting a separate branch may do the job,
> and what ever we need to do in the future (in the way of merging the
> project branches not necessarily the files themselves) can be
> approached more peacefully, I think in that way we can translate the
> information in the manual as develops (big time saver method) and let
> the team focus on the main branch, we can update the team with the
> progress of the translations latter on and see who can offer the
> technical support for the end product if nobody from the translation
> volunteers has done it, I may be completely wrong, let me know what
> you guys think.
>
> I remember back in the days when I star using Ubuntu there was a super
> easy way to translate the packages information sentence by sentence, I
> wonder how that work and if can be implemented here, surely that
> information is around there let me see if I find something.
>
> --
> R.J. Quirarte
>
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