Re: Emacs user manual in Spanish

[Alex Schroeder]

Hi all

It would definitely be possible. We could translate the texinfo to wiki markup 
automatically. Many years ago I had written such a similar thing for Emacs 
Wiki: it translated the entire wiki to texinfo and then turned it into an info 
file for offline viewing. But it got lost. And the wiki kept growing.

Perhaps there is already a texinfo to markdown translator available via pandoc 
and we could hook into that. Add some markdown rules to the wiki markup, for 
example.

The problem would be getting back to texinfo and producing a good looking print 
version of the manual, however. And what about manually generating the texinfo 
menus? 

Unless of course one would deem an online wiki good enough, of course.

Cheers
Alex
-- 
Typed on a tiny keyboard. Sorry for being terse.

On 3 Jul 2017, at 00:32, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

>>> That's how it works on Emacs Wiki, for example.
>>> Users interested in translating a given wiki page
>>> do so.  They need not be interested, qualified, or
>>> have the time to translate other pages.  Every
>>> contribution can help.  And others can then update
>>> pages or fix both technical and translation bugs.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps the HTML GNU Emacs manuals could offer a
>>> similar possibility: Allow for anyone to translate
>>> a given section into a given language, or update
>>> such a translated section.
>> 
>> That's a very interesting idea. How hard do you think it
>> would be to create a wiki version of the Emacs manual ?
> 
> I don't know.  I'm no expert on any of this.  Alex
> Schroeder, the wiki maintainer, might know something
> about this.
> 
> Certainly the text for a section could be copied and
> pasted to a wiki page manually.  But (1) formatting
> would presumably be lost and need to be created anew
> to make the page user-friendly. And (2) probably you
> meant doing so programmatically - I can't speak to that.
> 
> And as I wondered out loud previously, there might be
> some problem wrt the GNU copyright and allowing ad hoc
> modification (dunno).  Perhaps there could be some way
> to have an unofficial, modifiable copy (dunno).
> 
>> There are plenty of translation projects that work on an online
>> interface and where translators contribute just a few paragraphs,
>> and the quality is just sufficient to be useful (and it can be
>> updated by anyone else).