[Doc-SIG] Python Docs' Translation
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake@beopen.com
Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:35:06 -0400 (EDT)
Luca Manini writes:
> I'm studing Python in my spare time and I think I can try to translate
> some docs from English to Italian, may be starting with the Library
> Reference and the very interesting Extending and Embedding stuff.
Cool!
(Please also see my response to Greg Ward's message on this thread.)
> If I understand well, the original source is LaTeX (with some ad-hoc
> macros). I'm quite fluent in LaTeX so this would be easy to work with.
> The questions are: is there a coordinator for this kind of effort,
> where should I get the sources from, where should I put the translated
> files?
The sources are indeed in LaTeX, and we intend to convert them to
SGML or XML later this year. The markup largely consists of the LaTeX
sectioning and list-like environments and some inline markups, and a
large amount of specialized markup (the "ad-hoc" markup you mention).
The Python-specific markup is mostly documented in "Documenting
Python", available at:
http://www.python.org/doc/currect/doc/doc.html
I should have more time to answer questions in a couple of days, and
will be glad to do so. Thanks for your interest in helping out with
the documentation efforts!
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at beopen.com>
BeOpen PythonLabs Team Member