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[jcisio <jcisio@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There's a generate-title-pages.sh script in the titlepage directory. It
> generates SVG files from the templates, replacing the title and author
> strings with what it finds in the po files.
>
> As a result, I have all the translated title page files here, but as I
> have to tweak the layout and kerning in every single case, I only commit
> the ones where I did that. So far only for the languages with
> significant translation progress, as shown on
> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual/
>
> It's only because of your mail that I got aware of a change in the
> Vietnamese translation, from:
>  Bắt đầu làm quen với Ubuntu .
>  Nhóm Hướng dẫn Ubuntu
> to:
>  Làm quen với Ubuntu .
>  Nhóm Tài liệu Ubuntu
>
> Would be nice to have a mechanism that notifies us/me of such cases, due
> to the need for manual work on the title pages.
>
> Anyway, titlepage-vi.svg with the new translation is checked in now. As
> it stands, nobody but myself should bother with messing around with
> those files ;)
>

Yes I was aware of this script, and the problem of font kerning, too.
Because of the change in the title (it was changed in Launchpad, but
hasn't been pushed into the repository), and I was testing the
compilation, I made this titlepage myself ;-)

The notification mechanism, I think there's no way other than ask each
team for the confirmation of title/team name.

-- 
Hai-Nam Nguyen (aka jcisio)