Re: [Help-nano] man-html translated in RO

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi Mihai,

(For Mario: Mihai made Romanian translations of the nano docs, but
of the HTML pages.  I'm wondering, how are you getting along with
applying po4a to nano?)

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014, at 11:25, Mihai Cristescu wrote (quoted in full):
> Thanks for reply and sorry that the files can't be used in this form.
> I know that the html page are generated from the man groff format, but the
> thing is I am using a CAT system (memoQ) which uses a translation memory
> and speed up the translation process significantly.

Ah, very good.  Then, when the nano docs become available in
POT files, this translation memory will save you a lot of work.

> The problem is that I can't import the groff files into memoQ.
> 
> I have tried several approaches to convert the man groff files to: rtf ,
> ps, html formats which can be imported in memoQ, omegat , Trados SDL etc,
> but the issue is that there is no way to convert the translated files to
> man groff back. It seems that the only productive way to translate the man
> pages is to translate the files directly, but this is time consuming since
> you are not using a translation memory and term base.
> 
> Regarding po4a :
> I have installed yesterday this package on my arch system and followed the
> documentation. I succeeded converting the man pages to pot files, import
> them in memoQ, translated, but I was not able to convert back to man page
> (I had some strange errors on po4a-translate command) and I had to give up.
> Maybe I didn't quite understand how the po4a system works.

Mario has some experience with po4a.  Maybe you can work together
on solving the issues?

> Nevertheless I shall contact Laurentiu to have a chat with him about the
> process.
> 
> Regards,
> Mihai

Regards,

Benno

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