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

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> It was originally for i18n - if the templates are too verbose that's
> another problem entirely.

Yes, I agree. (I wasn't talking about i18n at all in my email, and I want to
know about the other UHI template improvements...)

> delay translation even more
> while the templates are updated to some other format.

I'm hoping for some fairly small and simple changes (ha! silly me!)

Colin

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bod...@li...
> [mailto:bod...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Alistair Young
> Sent: 14 June 2005 17:49
> To: bod...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Bodington-developers] Templates (was: attn Alistair and
> sean)
>
>
> It was originally for i18n - if the templates are too verbose that's
> another problem entirely. The danger now is we delay
> translation even more
> while the templates are updated to some other format.
>
> Who was coordinating the template divvy-up and merge into sf? fc?
>
> Alistair
>
>
> --
> Alistair Young
> Senior Software Engineer
> UHI@Sabhal Mòr 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=90
> >
> >
> > ... and I think that looks great!
> >
> >
> > The bit Adam was asking about is what state the templates
> are in that have
> > your improved user interface changes (e.g. collapsible help
> text, 'manage'
> > link, etc). We need to get those changes before we start
> updating others.
> >
> > A related issue is how committed we feel to the XML
> templates as they are?
> > We all seem to find them too verbose -- maybe we could simplify them
> > slightly. Matthew suggested adding support for the
> <building> tags in the
> > 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=90
> >> 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 Mòr 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
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Adam Marshall:       OUCS, 13, Banbury Rd. Oxford OX2 6NN.
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> >> > Blog:                http://ramble.oucs.ox.ac.uk/blog/adamm/
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> >> >
> >> >
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