Re: Translating non-gettext manuals

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Šegan)]

Hi Daniel,

Today at 2:18, Daniel Nylander wrote:

> I wonder if there are any information somewhere describing how you do
> when translating manuals who are in XML/OMF format (not gnome-docs/gettext).

Ask them to migrate their documentation to gnome-doc-utils :)
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeDocUtilsMigrationHowTo

> cd docs
> mkdir sv
> xml2po C/file.xml >sv/file.po
> (translate the PO file)
> po2xml C/file.xml sv/file.po >sv/file.xml

What's "po2xml"?

(I vaguely remember about writing a wrapper for someone, but it's not
part of official gnome-doc-utils releases; or is it something you
wrote for yourself? :)

> When I try this with (for example) F-Spot it works so far.
> How do I create the required OMF file? I searched for Scrollkeeper
> documentation but didn't find any non-developer stuff.

Again, http://live.gnome.org/GnomeDocUtilsMigrationHowTo, step 3.

The file you want to base values on is:

  http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/f-spot/trunk/docs/C/f-spot-C.omf?view=log

Cheers,
Danilo