Re: additional improvement of Polish tutorial

[jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień)]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002  Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>     The present version preserves the addition made by the original
>     translators - it starts with some advice what to do if the Polish
>     letters are not displayed correctly. Perhaps it would be good to
>     extend all non-ASCII tutorials in this way?
> 
> Can you translate it to English and make it a bit more general?
> Then it could make sense to put into the English version
> and it would eventually propagate into other versions.


The really elegant solution consists in making PROBLEMS file also
language dependent: when `C-h t' opens `TUTORIAL.pl', `C-h P' should
open `PROBLEMS.pl' instead of `PROBLEMS'. Then the following text
should be sufficient:

        You are looking at the Emacs tutorial. If it contains
        non-ASCII (non-English?) letters (characters?) which are not
        displayed correctly, consult `Emacs Known Problems' in `Help'
        menu.

Is it short enough not to cause the problem mentioned below?

> 
> Is this the text that you mean?
> 
>     Niniejszy akapit celowo nie zawiera polskich liter. Jesli polskie znaki
>     w dalszej czesci podrecznika nie sa poprawnie wyswietlane, to znaczy, ze
>     Twoj Emacs nie zostal jeszcze prawidlowo skonfigurowany. Pomoc w tym
>     zakresie mozesz znalezc pod adresem:
>     <URL:http://www.agh.edu.pl/ogonki>

Yes.

> 
> What is the URL for?

It is a Polish site devoted especially to problems with handling
Polish letters by computer software. Ryszard Kubiak, the main
translator of the tutorial, may provide more information if needed.

> 
> One thing I worry about is that the first screen is now too long to
> fit properly in a 24-line terminal.  The instructions at the bottom
> for how to scroll won't appear!

That's a real problem! I hope the translators will propose a solution.

Regards

Janusz

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Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
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