About translating man-pages
Ryo Fujita
rfujita at redhat.com
Fri Jul 18 01:41:47 UTC 2008
FYI.
The SRPM of docbook2X includes an excellent template docbook for man
pages.
./docbook2X-0.8.8/test/refentry/leidert-example.xml
# The author of template lives in debian...
Best Rio.
On 2008/07/18, at 10:30, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 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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