Re: [Fink-i18n] Idea: each FAQ as its own xml file

[BABA Y. <yos...@vi...>]

On 2004/08/18, at 9:18, Mich=E8le Garoche wrote:

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>>> I don't understand here. If languages have no translator, there is=20=

>>> no translation and I don't see how then there can be discrepancies=20=

>>> between English and English.
>>
>> FAQ General Questions have five entries (1.1 to 1.5).  If someone=20
>> added an entry (FAQ 1.6), but I had no time to translate into=20
>> Japanese, then Japanese will never have FAQ 1.6, which is the=20
>> descrepancy.
> Temporary discrepancy between Japanese and English, but not between=20
> English and English.

No one worries English - English discrepancy.  Just English and other=20
languages.

> And later you have time to translate and there is no more discrepancy.=20=

> Anyway, the translation cannot be in real time.

The point is how long does it take.  Some languages have not been=20
maintained for a few months.  Would be a few years.  Spanish readers=20
will never know there are more FAQ only if they read English pages.

> Then, there is another problem splitting the files, the print version=20=

> has chance to be only related to the small file, hence you loose the=20=

> benefice of searching the whole faq, which is really the only way to=20=

> search correctly the documentation.
>
> And if you are about to make this change (as alas it seems), I don't=20=

> see why it would be restricted to FAQ, user's guide is also huge, as=20=

> well as packaging, etc... Almost any file in xml is huge. Only the=20
> files in web are small.
>
> The dichotomization of things is not always the better way to go. In=20=

> this case, it's more like hiding the forest behind the trees.

Yes, there still have many things to discuss. I don't think we will=20
change immediately.

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BABA Yoshihiko

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