Re: arabic man pages is possible

[Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

hehe.. translating man pages was the first email i sent to arabeyes.org 
when i learned about their existance.. that was almost a year ago.. maybe.

I still think it is a fantastic idea and should be looked into 
seriously. I am not a fan of making the commands themselves arabic, but 
making the description and help arabic.

Tell you what... i will try and look into maybe converting man pages to 
some sort of a .po formant we can then create a new project under 
translatios and start working on that or get some people interested... 
How about that...

BTW, how is your book coming along.. can you tell me where to find it ?

Anmar

Moayyad Al-Sadi wrote:
> --- Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Moayyad:
> >
> > Thanks alot for your man page. I am having diffculty
> > opening it in 
> > nautilus on Debian Sid but i am sure it is some
> > thing i am missing.
>
> use KDE konq..
> or in nautlus pic view as other then select galeon
> ---
>
> > BTW, if we use Docbook format (XML) we can
> > translated all of our docs to 
> > man pages (assuming we are translating them to man).
> >
> > I think having arabic man pages is great.
> >
> > Anmar
>
> well I think 1st we should translate man pages that
> cover the system commands and admin and file types
> all of them comes with all distro and all of them
> comes as compressed plain text files we can translate
> every thing that does not begin with .(DOT)
> man pages is a text file with mark up like .TH .TE .PP
> just skip them when you translate
> no need to have the xml of the original man pages
>
> > Moayyad Al-Sadi wrote:
> >
> > > I was anti-transalting man pages since mlterm and
> >
> > akaa
> >
> > > are not yet famous
> > > but I real an article in linuxfocus that change my
> > > mind
> > > yes we can read arabic man pages in konqueror and
> > > nautlus
> > > download this test
> http://www.linux-egypt.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=20041
>
> > > change the extention to be foobar.n
> > > and type in the address in konqueror or nautlus 
> > > man:/home/name/foobar.n
> > > then you can read it in arabbic
> > > ---
> > > so let us start translating the main man pages
> > > ---
> > >
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