From afaeb0e5f2af990b2c599a43bb5b3aa71297e531 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James LewisMoss Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:47:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * doc/README.translator.txt (variables): add instructions for manual and account hierarchy files. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@4514 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd --- doc/README.translator.txt | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/README.translator.txt b/doc/README.translator.txt index 46aedd7bb3..d7ead0ab81 100644 --- a/doc/README.translator.txt +++ b/doc/README.translator.txt @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ -This document explains how to create a GnuCash translation file for +This document describes the different things needed to translate +GnuCash for a particular locale. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +This section explains how to create a GnuCash translation file for use with GNU gettext. by Yannick LE NY , the French translator @@ -151,3 +155,33 @@ For example: #: messages-i18n.c:251 msgid "Show Income/Expense" msgstr "Einnahmen/Ausgaben anzeigen" + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +This section describes the actions needed to translate the manual. + +1) Create a new directory doc/sgml/ (where is + something like es, en_GB, or pt_PT). +2) Copy the files from doc/sgml/C into this directory. +3) Recreate the image files in doc/sgml/C/gnucash so that they are + appropriate to the locale. +4) Edit all the sgml files and translate for the locale. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +This section describes the actions needed to translate the files +containing the new account hierarchies. + +1) Create a new directory accounts/. +2) Copy the files from accounts/C to accounts/ +3) Do not change any xml tags. +For each file: +4) Change the gnc-act:title, gnc-act:short-description, and + gnc-act:long-description to contain appropriately translated text. + Do not add any newlines in the long description except at the end + and begining of the string. +5) For each gnc:account in the file translate the act:name, and + act:description fields. Please do not translate any other fields. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Thanks so very much to all the translators for their hard effort and +excellent work.