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[Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

I do agree that it would be better if the translations started from
alpha onwards - that way at least all the main content should be fully
edited and we won't be changing niggly things.

But I don't want to turn away the two people who have offered their
help - surely there must be something they can do to help in the
meantime?



On 1/5/10, Joe Burgess <joemburgess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is an interesting issue, There is not built in way to do
> translations at all in latex, so we will have to figure that out. I will
> look into it, but it might require that we just have separate branches
> for diff languages.  I am not familiar enough with bzr to figure out if
> there is a way to branch something, and then every no and then pull in
> new files as the English version gets updated.
>
> The issue is because we are doing so much work right now, and everything
> is so fluid it is very hard to have the translators work. Nothing is
> edited and so little changes will keep happening to the main document.
> So it would be best if the translations don't start until after we are
> pretty much done, but of course we don't want to lose the steam we have now.
>
> So, does anyone have any ideas?
>
> --Joe Burgess
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> On 01/04/2010 06:43 AM, Benjamin Humphrey wrote:
>> Hi Anwar,
>>
>> At the moment we haven't actually set up translation support with
>> LaTeX and Launchpad Rosetta - but this is a top priority and we should
>> have this up and running hopefully before the end of this week.
>>
>> In the mean time, perhaps you could get the current branch revision
>> and start translating chapters 1, 2 and 3 into plain text so that when
>> we do get the translation support running it will be very easy to just
>> transfer it across.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Benjamin
>>
>> On 1/5/10, Anwar Mohammed <zero-n@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> i think i can help with this project
>>> i am  Arabic (native) so i can help in translating this manual
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