[Gimp-docs] Structural changes -> gettext?

[Alessandro Falappa]

Kolbjørn Stuestøl ha scritto:
> According to the applause from the other writers, it seems that gettext 
> will be fine.
> I have no knowledge of gettext, but understand that it is much the same 
> as poEdit which I am using to edit po(t) files and creating mo files.
> If that's the case, it is only possible to edit one paragraph at a time. 
> In my opinion a great drawback. When translating I use the other 
> languages as a reference (if I understand them of course). Is this not 
> possible with gettext? poEdit (gettext?) is OK for shorter paragraphs, 
> but somewhat frustrating when you need to read several lines of text, 
> perhaps together with some text in the previous para.

I don't know for sure but I guess that related paragraph will stay close 
each other in the resulting po file so understanding the context should 
be possible.

> Another problem: I'm still using Windows.  If I can't use poEdit, is 
> there a simple way to install and run gettext on this OS? Something like 

You can surely use PoEdit, or a bare text editor, to edit po files but I 
am afraid that you will need to have a gnu toolchain to actually build 
the manual (get html out of the english original and translated po file).

> the installer for GIMP. If I need some extra packages, which?
> I looked at "http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/install.html" but found 
> this site too fuzzy at the first glance. But perhaps I'll study it more 
> seriously one rainy day in the future ;-)  and get some better 
> understanding.
> I'm using CygWin for my translation work on GIMP, if that matter.
> Have a nice day
> Kolbjørn

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Alessandro Falappa
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