About translating man-pages

[Sam Varshavchik]

Oybek Nuriddinov writes:

> Hi, everybody! Could you please help me! I(and I have a team, we want 
> really do it) want to translate man-pages from English or Russian into 
> Uzbek! I heard that there are no po files in manpages. Could you please 
> explain me how to translate man-pages, if possible step by step (I'm not 
> so smart)! Excuse me, for taking your time! Thank you. 

Michael Kerrisk maintains the core man page set in English. He publishes the 
man pages as ordinary tarballs:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/

All you need to do is just translate the individual man pages, and assemble 
and publish a similar tarball. Then, contact the maintainer of Fedora's 
man-pages rpm, and figure out how you want to coordinate your work -- 
whether the maintainer's going to pull your tarball and publish it as a 
subpackage, or you maintaining a separate rpm package, by yourself.

My personal suggestion to you is to use Docbook XML to write your man pages, 
and use Docbook XSL stylesheets to translate them into both a troff format, 
and a nice HTML version, from the same source.

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