[haiku-doc] Re: Another try at user guide translations
- From: Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:14:48 +0200
>> How are big/small changes to the English original handled?
> At this time, they are not handled. To assign translate IDs to the original
document,
> the script just compares the contents of translatable blocks with the strings
it has in
> its database...
>> This is the major thing that needs solving.
>> We need a way to a) insert whole blocks of stuff (e.g. <p>, <h1>, <table>
etc.) into an
>> original English page and also b) in-block things like changed words, an
additional
>> sentence etc.
Let's assume we (that's you, of course :) ) find a special editing mode for English pages
to add/remove whole blocks (a), inserting/removing those from the translations should be
straight forward, right?
Here are my thoughts to (b), small in-block changes:
When a block gets translated, the original text-block used for this translation is saved
for later reference alongside it. Additionally, a checksum for that original reference
text-block is generated and saved with the translated text-block.
Such a checksum is also generated when the original text-block is
created/changed.
When an original text-block is changed, a new checksum is created and all
translated-blocks are marked for updating by a coloured background (+ some indication on
the summary page).
If such a translated block is opened for editing, the pane with the original block is
showing the old reference text-block saved when the block was translated before and the
current original block. The diffs should again be coloured. To the right is again the
translated block for editing.
If the editing window is closed with "OK", it's expected all changes were made and the new
checksum and reference block is saved.
This is similar to the "rev4trans" and "co en-rev" cells in my spreadsheet suggestion that
started this thread, only there we'd have SVN revisions (see
//www.freelists.org/post/haiku-doc/Another-try-at-user-guide-translations and
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1615/translationtrackersprea.png).
Do I make any sense? Is it feasible? Got a better idea?
Regards,
Humdinger
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