Where to contribute manual translations ? (Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 238, Issue 29)

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Dec 29, 2023, at 2:00, emacs-devel-request@gnu.org wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:14:06 +0000
> From: Vincent Belaïche <vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr>
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> Hello,
> 
> Where is the right place to contribute a translation to French of the SES 
> manual ?
> Is it there : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacsdoc-fr
> French GNU Emacs manual - Summary 
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There have been many attempts at translating the manuals.

One was organized by traduc.org. I ended up "in charge" of it.

I moved the project to chapril / sr.ht a few years ago to easily include 
translators. The translation evolves slowly by it is also used for technical 
translation master student internships.

https://forge.chapril.org/brandelune/documentation_emacs/

The sources are hosted on sr.ht.

https://git.sr.ht/~brandelune/emacs_documentation_repository

> Another question : how to internationalize docstrings ? IMHO it would be 
> great if the docstring could have some info manual anchor in it, and one 
> could display it from the currently selected language manual. Besides, 
> reading docstring from manual via some anchor is basically what Calc does 
> with some kitchen tricks.

Eli answered that.


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> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 07:32:08 -0800
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Vincent Belaïche
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> It's also perhaps somewhat overblown given that we only expect to have a
> very small number of translated manuals for the foreseeable future.[1]
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> Footnotes:
> [1]  I'm not aware of anyone else working on translating our manuals.

French is slowly ongoing. I seem to remember that Japanese has a book version 
but it's getting old.



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