Re: Esperanto translation of Ada & Zangemann

Nico Rikken <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:50:16 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.org.fsf.europe.translators
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Hi Marco,

Thanks. I spent many hours on this build system, so I'm glad to hear it
works for others as well. There is still more work to be done in order
to support more formats, but we have a good base to add it
incrementally.

The build instructions have been merged into the docs directory:
https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann/src/branch/main/docs/building.md

Regarding the credits, there is currently no automatic process in place
to add this information. The itstool supports a field to add
translation credits, but in practice you'd see these in the .license
files in the text directory, where they are added manually according to
the REUSE standard. For example:
https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann/src/branch/main/docbook/po/text/eo.po.license

To get credits in the book, you can change the colophon text to add
them. Typically the colophon is changed slightly each edition as it
might contain other credits and the ISBN code.

For the future perhaps we can add placeholders in the colophon text
that get replaced by information, so it doesn't have to be included
explicitly.

How would you ideally expect it to work? Where would you add your name
and where would you expect it to end up? I can create an issue in Git
to keep track of the idea and refine it over time.

Kind regards,
Nico

On Fri, 2025-10-17 at 23:59 +0000, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> I managed to produce the pdf version of the esperanto book, (btw the
> build system is awesome -congrats to the builder!), and I noticed
> something...
> 
> .... very selfishly I was looking for where my name might appear in
> the
> translation as the author of the translation... but I couldn't find
> it
> and I verified that no translator appears anywhere in any translated
> PDF
> output... but are we sure this is correct?

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