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Re: [OctDev] How can I help with translation?
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胡小柯 |
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Re: [OctDev] How can I help with translation? |
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Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:30:14 +0800 |
2012/9/4 Michael D Godfrey <address@hidden>:
> On 09/03/2012 01:50 PM, Carnë Draug wrote:
>
> Or, maybe I could translate the manual on this website
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/octave.pdf
>>
>
> It would not be good to start from the current English PDF. This
> is created by the Octave build system from a set of input files.
> An important challenge will be how to keep the translation in step
> with the English version. The English language files are updated
> quite often, but the people doing this typically do not know Chinese.
> Some fairly automatic means to telling the translators that a English
> file has been updated will be needed.
>
> First, you need to learn how the current Manual gets built. You
> can learn this by studying the build process from the Octave
> source. This will take some work, but it would be of major
> value if you could complete a translation, and I am sure that
> other maintainers would help with technical issues about the
> Octave system.
>
> I have done translations of German and French technical
> material lately and one thing I know (for these languages) is
> that Google translate is very helpful. I think that it knows Chinese,
> too. It cannot handle whole sections (Chapters, say) of text, but
> it is good at phrases and sentences -- it lets you ask for alternate
> translations, for instance. So, it helps recall particular words that
> you were searching for, for example.
>
> So, I hope you will not get discouraged by how much you need to
> learn -- it will not be all that hard. And, it will be of great value to
> the user community.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Michael
>
>
Thanks, Carnë and Michael, And sorry for top posting. I think the
manual(that PDF) is also helpful, so I decide to continue translate
it. And you suggest finding out how the help manual built by process
the Octave from sources, but I'm not good at programmer. Do I need to
read all the sources or which files build the help manual?