Translations of the manual about documentation HOT 8 CLOSED

Is the translation process the same as the one for the GUI?
If so, I will take care of the French translation of the manual as soon as you finish reworking the EN manual.

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Awesome!

Is the translation process the same as the one for the GUI?

It's not identical (the GUI uses QtLinguist while the doc uses GNU gettext) but the concept is the same. In both you'll have smaller blocks of text that need to be translated separately.

The last update of the french translation was actually done by you at 2011-02-21. (and about that time the last bigger updates of the doc took place...)

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@theGreatWhiteShark please, ping me when you think you're done with the update of the English version and I'll have a look at the French one then.

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Sure. But I think this will take another two weeks until everything is done.

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No worries at all.

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Hey @trebmuh, the manual is now finally ready for translation and no text is intended to be altered or added before the release of 1.1. (What timing, isn't it).

In order to update the translation you just have to edit the manual_fr.po file and call make to see the result in the manual_fr.html. The update process itself is quite new. So, in case anything does not work, please ping me.

Another thing: the matching of the source strings is done in "fuzzy" mode. This means when the source text "a edit button" is changed to "an edit button" the translation will not get invalidated. But for the (one time) initial update of the existing translations maybe a couple of wrong matches have been introduced. So, it may be required to check them all.

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@theGreatWhiteShark thanks for pinging me. Great news!
That is unfortunately a bad timing for me as I'm moving from a place to another one on those coming days, and am starting a new job for me. So it'll take a few weeks before things will settle a bit and I'll be able to catch up with this.
But hey, don't get me wrong, I'll be back there translating the manual in French as soon as I'll be able to do so!
Talk to you soon.

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I just revisited the installation of the docs and not just the sparsely translated manuals but also a full copy of all generated images is installed for each translation. That's 5.8 MB each.

I would make some changes to the CMakeLists.txt to install only the English version with the 1.2.0 release. This one is a fallback in the source code and will be displayed for all selected languages.

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