Where to contribute manual translations ? (Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 238, Issue 29)

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>]

> On Dec 29, 2023, at 2:00, emacs-devel-request@gnu.org wrote:

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> From: Vincent Belaïche <vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr>
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> Hello,
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> Where is the right place to contribute a translation to French of the SES manual ?
> Is it there : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacsdoc-fr
> French GNU Emacs manual - Summary [Savannah]<https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacsdoc-fr>
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There have been many attempts at translating the manuals.

One was organized by traduc.org. I ended up "in charge" of it.

I moved the project to chapril / sr.ht a few years ago to easily include translators. The translation evolves slowly by it is also used for technical translation master student internships.

https://forge.chapril.org/brandelune/documentation_emacs/

The sources are hosted on sr.ht.

https://git.sr.ht/~brandelune/emacs_documentation_repository

> Another question : how to internationalize docstrings ? IMHO it would be great if the docstring could have some info manual anchor in it, and one could display it from the currently selected language manual. Besides, reading docstring from manual via some anchor is basically what Calc does with some kitchen tricks.

Eli answered that.


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> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Vincent Belaïche
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> It's also perhaps somewhat overblown given that we only expect to have a
> very small number of translated manuals for the foreseeable future.[1]
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> Footnotes:
> [1]  I'm not aware of anyone else working on translating our manuals.

French is slowly ongoing. I seem to remember that Japanese has a book version but it's getting old.



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