Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary) | Date | Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:06:56 -0400 |
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On Sunday 15 July 2007 12:46:42 pm Tsugikazu Shibata wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:12:35 -0400, rob wrote: > > On Friday 13 July 2007 9:46:59 pm Tsugikazu Shibata wrote: > > > > > How about adding; > > > > > kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt > > > > > > > > The problem is, the generated htmdocs are in english. This file is > > > > about how to generate (and author) English documentation that won't > > > > be translated. What's the point of translating the instructions if > > > > the result won't be translated? > > > > > > People (who even in non-native) would better to know and read it such > > > htmldocs because there are good and important documents even in > > > English. I thought that translation of this file may help. > > > > The english version of htmldocs is generated from the source code. If > > translating remotely current versions of htmldocs into other languages > > was feasible, then the english version wouldn't need to be in the source > > code in the first place. > > > > Translating a document _about_ htmldocs boils down to "Dear non-english > > speaker: here's something you can't read, nor can you update it either > > except though your language maintainer." > > No, kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO includes explanation of tools to extract the > document, format of extractable document in source files and so on. > I thought this file would help non-native people, how to extract or add > in-kernel extractable documents.
Which will be in english, so why can't the instructions on how to do it be in english too?
> I understand that these tools will generate English documents but > that's OK.
Then the instructions how to do it in english should be ok too. If they can't read the instructions, they won't be able to read the result.
> Such large volume of documents are not easy to translate > into other languages.
"Here's how to get a result that will be useless to you."
Why? What's the point? I'm not seeing it.
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