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Re: Resend: A single multi-lingual documet -> multipletranslatedoutput files?

From: Hiroki Sato <hrs at jp dot FreeBSD dot org>
To: tikai at abinitio dot com
Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 03:05:29 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Resend: A single multi-lingual documet -> multipletranslatedoutput files?
References: <OFD02BE00C.47130BED-ON85256C36.005E106A-85256C36.005E54B2@init.com><3D86118F.96D11F0A@kosek.cz>

Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote
  in <3D86118F.96D11F0A@kosek.cz>:

jirka> > The benefit of being able to do this, is that the consistency of the
jirka> > original
jirka> > and the translations can be checked very easily.
jirka> 
jirka> IMHO mixing translations in one file is not good practise. It is very
jirka> hard to edit them, especially if number of translations grew to more
jirka> than 2. You can use some auxiliary tools like diff and xmldiff to get
jirka> track changes in translations.

 I agree with this.  Using a revision control system to manage
 the synchronization status between a original file and the translated
 one is more useful, I think.

-- Hiroki SATO  <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>

References:
- Resend: A single multi-lingual documet -> multiple translatedoutput files?
  - From: Taro Ikai
- Re: Resend: A single multi-lingual documet -> multipletranslatedoutput files?
  - From: Jirka Kosek

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