On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 05:41:44PM +0100, Martin Budaj wrote:
Some people here could be interested in translating the Therion book in italian in order to reduce the steepest learning curve for speleo folks here. Is there any defined policy about that? Some common repository or what else?
Unfortunately not. Main problem is that thbook is being changed and updated quite often and we did not find any easy solution how to keep translations synchronized with the original. Although there were some attempts to use wiki for managing translation into Czech/Slovak, they were not really successful.
Anyway, I would rather recommend tutorials like http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php?id=tfc or http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php?id=tbe for translation; thbook is mostly a reference not very well suitable for learning therion.
Well, translation changes could be better managed by using unified diffs among successive snapshots of the manuals and possibly a common VCS. A typical trick is adding a suitable comment in the TeX code to track reference english versions of each file. In that case, one could work on differences only, instead of re-reading the whole text. This is better done by CVS which has a per file versioning and is very effective for translation maintainership of multiple files. -- Francesco P. Lovergine