RE: [Bodington-developers] Templates (was: attn Alistair and sean)

[Alistair Y. <ali...@sm...>]

It was originally for i18n - if the templates are too verbose that's
another problem entirely. The danger now is we delay translation even mor=
e
while the templates are updated to some other format.

Who was coordinating the template divvy-up and merge into sf? fc?

Alistair


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Alistair Young
Senior Software Engineer
UHI@Sabhal M=F2r Ostaig
Isle of Skye
Scotland

>
> Adam sed:
>
>> > So what's happening about getting the UHI templates into SF and then
>> > distributing instructions on how to internationalise and
>> then doing the
>> > edits? This task was supposed to run from 21 may - 7 june so we are
>> > already
>> > a week overdue and we haven't seen any templates yet!
>
> Alistair replied:
>
>> I sent a message to the list on 26/5 saying 1i8n was ready
>> and including
>> instructions on how to localise a template:
>> http://www.weblogs.uhi.ac.uk/sm00ay/?p=3D90
>
>
> ... and I think that looks great!
>
>
> The bit Adam was asking about is what state the templates are in that h=
ave
> your improved user interface changes (e.g. collapsible help text, 'mana=
ge'
> link, etc). We need to get those changes before we start updating other=
s.
>
> A related issue is how committed we feel to the XML templates as they a=
re?
> We all seem to find them too verbose -- maybe we could simplify them
> slightly. Matthew suggested adding support for the <building> tags in t=
he
> new templates, which could save a lot of work.
>
> Colin
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bod...@li...
>> [mailto:bod...@li...]On Behalf Of
>> Alistair Young
>> Sent: 13 June 2005 15:12
>> To: bod...@li...
>> Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] attn Alistair and sean
>>
>>
>> Adam,
>> I sent a message to the list on 26/5 saying 1i8n was ready
>> and including
>> instructions on how to localise a template:
>> http://www.weblogs.uhi.ac.uk/sm00ay/?p=3D90
>> not sure what the plan is to get the new templates into sf - perhaps
>> someone may know?
>> Alistair
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alistair Young
>> Senior Software Engineer
>> UHI@Sabhal M=F2r Ostaig
>> Isle of Skye
>> Scotland
>>
>> > So what's happening about getting the UHI templates into SF and then
>> > distributing instructions on how to internationalise and
>> then doing the
>> > edits? This task was supposed to run from 21 may - 7 june so we are
>> > already
>> > a week overdue and we haven't seen any templates yet!
>> >
>> > We're going to have institutional commitments soon which
>> will prevent us
>> > from helping out with the internationalisation.
>> >
>> > adam
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