About translating man-pages

[Ryo Fujita]

FYI.

The SRPM of docbook2X includes an excellent template docbook for man  
pages.
./docbook2X-0.8.8/test/refentry/leidert-example.xml

# The author of template lives in debian...

Best Rio.

On 2008/07/18, at 10:30, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Oybek Nuriddinov writes:
>
>> Hi, everybody! Could you please help me! I(and I have a team, we  
>> want really do it) want to translate man-pages from English or  
>> Russian into Uzbek! I heard that there are no po files in manpages.  
>> Could you please explain me how to translate man-pages, if possible  
>> step by step (I'm not so smart)! Excuse me, for taking your time!  
>> Thank you.
>
> Michael Kerrisk maintains the core man page set in English. He  
> publishes the man pages as ordinary tarballs:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/
>
> All you need to do is just translate the individual man pages, and  
> assemble and publish a similar tarball. Then, contact the maintainer  
> of Fedora's man-pages rpm, and figure out how you want to coordinate  
> your work -- whether the maintainer's going to pull your tarball and  
> publish it as a subpackage, or you maintaining a separate rpm  
> package, by yourself.
>
> My personal suggestion to you is to use Docbook XML to write your  
> man pages, and use Docbook XSL stylesheets to translate them into  
> both a troff format, and a nice HTML version, from the same source.
>
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