Documentation issue

[Robby Stephenson]

On Friday 06 March 2009, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> On Thursday 05 March 2009, Valerio Ricci wrote:
> > I started working on the translation of tellico documentation.
> > Apart from the fact that is harder than I imagined I wish to report you
> > one observation: you used some &detailed-view; and &group-view; and
> > maybe something else which makes the translation difficult to be
> > uniform in language (due to the fact that the terms cannot be
> > translated as they refer to particular, something like brand names). I
> > know that English is quite a standard language, and probably nobody has
> > particular problems understanding it, but maybe a full in-language
> > translation would be more readable, and moreover these not seem to be a
> > so standard notations, but peculiar of tellico, so it would not be
> > better to use plain text instead of those declarations (is that that
> > the correct name?) so that I, and other translator as well, are able to
> > translate them?
>
> Sure, I can change those. They were mostly because I wasn't sure what to
> call those UI areas when I started and I wanted to make it easy to change
> them later. :)

Thinking about that a little more, do you necessarily need the &detailed-
view; entities removed? I mean, you don't have to translate the GUI elements 
words for word, right?

How is the documentation translated, anyway? Is it by paragraphs in the pot 
file?

Robby