Publican and Docbook stylesheets

[Ruediger Landmann]

Hi all :)

Fedora translators have done incredible work getting Publican's "Common 
Content" sections into their languages. Due to your efforts, Publican 
can now support 37 languages other than English [1]

Publican also relies on word lists for various languages that are 
produced by the Docbook project upstream of us [2]. These stylesheet 
files provide around 150 common words like "chapter", "index", "warning" 
-- mostly labels and headings that are not part of the text itself. 
While stylesheets exist for nearly every language for which Fedora 
documentation exists, there are a small number of exceptions. No 
stylesheet exists yet for:

* Assamese
* Malay
* Malayalam
* Marathi
* Sinhalese
* Telugu

Unfortunately, the nature of these stylesheets makes our usual 
translation mechanism (through PO files) difficult, since these are 
really only lists of isolated words, with no context whatsoever, and 
these words are structured in a way that makes them appear as empty 
strings in PO files! [3] Finally, development of these stylesheets takes 
place upstream, and not in the Fedora project itself.

With all this in mind, I've put together a spreadsheet of the words that 
need translating, with some explanatory notes in English, and uploaded 
it to my fedorapeople page here: 
http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/locale.ods

I already have volunteers to help with Malay. Is there anyone who can 
help out with 150 words in any of the other five languages on the list 
above?

I hope to take any spreadsheets that I receive, transfer the results 
into properly formatted stylesheets, and get these included into the 
docbook project upstream.

Please let me know if you'd like to help.

Cheers
Ruediger

PS: if you want to see the stylesheets already in Fedora and their 
contents, make sure you have the docbook-style-xsl package installed. 
You will find the stylesheets in a directory named like 
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.74.0/common (the number at the 
end of xsl-stylesheets-1.74.0 will vary, depending on the version of the 
package on your system)

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Publican/Common_Content -- does your 
language have green ticks yet? :)
[2] http://docbook.sourceforge.net/
[3] for example, the entry for "Appendix" is "<gentext key="Appendix" 
text="Appendix"/>". Note that the text is *inside* the tag, not between 
tags.