From 725dae735334c5762f7f500a20d0ca65788cf137 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: intrigeri Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:10:33 +0100 Subject: po: misc responses to Joey Signed-off-by: intrigeri --- doc/plugins/contrib/po.mdwn | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/plugins/contrib/po.mdwn') diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/po.mdwn index d8edbc704..c2e2b60f7 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/po.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/po.mdwn @@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ translated with gettext, using [po4a](http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/). More information: -* It can be found in [my "po" branch](http://repo.or.cz/w/ikiwiki/intrigeri.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/po): `git clone git://repo.or.cz/ikiwiki/intrigeri.git` -* It involves adding three hooks to ikiwiki core. -* It is documented (including TODO and plans for next work steps) in `doc/plugins/po.mdwn`, which can be found in the same branch. +* It can be found in my "po" branch: + `git clone git://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/ikiwiki.git` +* It is self-contained, *i.e.* it does not modify ikiwiki core at all. +* It is documented (including TODO and plans for next work steps) in + `doc/plugins/po.mdwn`, which can be found in the same branch. * No public demo site is available so far, I'm working on this. My plan is to get this plugin clean enough to be included in ikiwiki. @@ -73,14 +75,42 @@ Any thoughts on this? >> and could only then translate it, right? I wonder if this will be clear >> though to the user. >> +>>> Right: a broken link points to the URL that allows to create +>>> a page that can either be a new master page or a non-translatable +>>> page, depending on `po_translatable_pages` value. The best +>>> solution I can thing of is to use [[plugins/edittemplate]] to +>>> insert something like "Warning: this is a master page, that must +>>> be written in $MASTER_LANGUAGE" into newly created master pages, +>>> and maybe another warning message on newly created +>>> non-translatable pages. It seems quite doable to me, but in order +>>> to avoid breaking existing functionality, it implies to hack a bit +>>> [[plugins/edittemplate]] so that multiple templates can be +>>> inserted at page creation time. [[--intrigeri]] +>> >> And also, is there any way to start a translation of a page into a new >> lanauge using the web interface? ->> +>> +>>> When a new language is added to `po_slave_languages`, a rebuild is +>>> triggered, and all missing PO files are created and checked into +>>> VCS. An unpriviledged wiki user can not add a new language to +>>> `po_slave_languages`, though. One could thing of adding the needed +>>> interface to translate a page into a yet-unsupported slave +>>> language, and this would automagically add this new language to +>>> `po_slave_languages`. It would probably be useful in some +>>> usecases, but I'm not comfortable with letting unpriviledged wiki +>>> users change the wiki configuration as a side effect of their +>>> actions; if this were to be implemented, special care would be +>>> needed. [[--intrigeri]] + >> FWIW, I'm tracking your po branch in ikiwiki master git in the po >> branch. One thing I'd like to try in there is setting up a translated >> basewiki, which seems like it should be pretty easy to do, and would be >> a great demo! --[[Joey]] >> ->>> I've merged your changes into my own branch. Please note my ->>> repository location has changed a few days ago, see my user page ->>> for the new one. --[[intrigeri]] +>>> I've merged your changes into my own branch, and made great +>>> progress on the various todo items. Please note my repository +>>> location has changed a few days ago, my user page was updated +>>> accordingly, but I forgot to update this page at the same time. +>>> Hoping it's not too complicated to relocated an existing remote... +>>> (never done that, I'm a Git beginner as well as a Perl +>>> newbie) --[[intrigeri]] -- cgit v1.2.3