help file translatio: how to get diffs

[Christian Stimming]

Hi,

Fabrizio Mancini schrieb:
>      > I have copied the whole guide from eng to my locale directory.
> 
>     Can you say specifically which files/directories you have copied? 
> 
> yes, i followed the instruction on the wiki, i checked out all the 
> gnucash-docs, and at this time i copied only the guide/C directory and 
> the figures dir.

Ok, sounds good.

> in the future i'll start to translate the help, so i will copy the help 
> dir to my locale.

Whatever you prefer. I would suggest working on one of the two documents 
first ("guide" vs. "help") and starting with the other rather when 
you're mostly done with the first.

>     Currently no-one is working on the english versions of that file, so you
>     can rest assured that there simply is *no* change at all in these files
>     during the next month. 
> 
> ok, i hope to finish my work in just a month or so! i'll be @ work 
> during christmas holiday! ;-)
> 
> 
> the last question, can i post the translation incrementally? ex when i 
> translate a whole character?
> or do i have to wait the end of the work?

No, you do not have to wait until you have finished all of your work. 
Instead, we would strongly suggest that you submit early and often 
during your work. It can always happen that for whatever reason you 
cannot continue, and it would be good if at least any intermediate 
results at that point can be re-used by others.

We would suggest to email your translation after every few days of work. 
For the "guide" (or the "help") you should create a .tar.gz of the 
guide/it directory (I guess "it" is your locale, isn't it [no pun 
intended]), email it to the gnucash-patches mailing list. 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists Then, someone of the 
developers will add it to the gnucash-docs SVN module so that you can 
see how this fits into this package.

Christian