Re: Idea: each FAQ as its own xml file

Le 18 août 2004, à 2:31, BABA Yoshihiko a écrit :

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> On 2004/08/18, at 9:18, Michèle Garoche wrote:
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>>>> I don't understand here. If languages have no translator, there is 
>>>> no translation and I don't see how then there can be discrepancies 
>>>> between English and English.
>>>
>>> FAQ General Questions have five entries (1.1 to 1.5).  If someone 
>>> added an entry (FAQ 1.6), but I had no time to translate into 
>>> Japanese, then Japanese will never have FAQ 1.6, which is the 
>>> descrepancy.
>> Temporary discrepancy between Japanese and English, but not between 
>> English and English.
>
> No one worries English - English discrepancy.
I worry sometimes, that's why I said it is not the good way to split 
the files. There are already discrepancies between faq, user's guide, 
installation, usage, readme.

But the point was you cut the sentence where you said Daniel seemed to 
talk about languages with no translator. I made a shortcut between no 
translator= no translation.

> The point is how long does it take.
You will not make it shorter because you split the files. Or 
Mathematics has changed recently and I'm not aware of it.

>  Some languages have not been maintained for a few months.  Would be a 
> few years.  Spanish readers will never know there are more FAQ only if 
> they read English pages.
So, make a call to translators. I've already changed some things in 
Spanish, the Spanish team leader stopped me telling he would make it in 
the weekend (on July 15th). Translators are human beings, they may have 
something more urgent to do or they may be on holidays or ill, etc...

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>> Then, there is another problem splitting the files, the print version 
>> has chance to be only related to the small file, hence you loose the 
>> benefice of searching the whole faq, which is really the only way to 
>> search correctly the documentation.
>>
>> And if you are about to make this change (as alas it seems), I don't 
>> see why it would be restricted to FAQ, user's guide is also huge, as 
>> well as packaging, etc... Almost any file in xml is huge. Only the 
>> files in web are small.
>>
>> The dichotomization of things is not always the better way to go. In 
>> 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 
> change immediately.
I wonder sometimes why I discuss, because this is not a true 
discussion. You have already decided to make the change, so later or 
sooner it makes no difference.

That's the same for other matters already "discussed": news, usage, 
readme, installation.

Michèle
<http://micmacfr.homeunix.org>