Re: arabic man pages is possible

[Moayyad Al-Sadi <double_bksp at yahoo dot com>]

about the book it's on www.daif.net/linux
please wait a couple of days befor downloaing it I''m
going to put a large file with all images and uptodate
htmls
---
about the man
no need to .po files man pages are a plane text with
some markup .TH ..PP
you may found it in /usr/man/manN whre N : 1-9
you can copy it to your home then uncompress it uzip
gzip or bzip2
then just edit it with any thing

--- Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com> wrote:
> 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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