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An explaination explanation of how you can translate the [[Gramps 3.3 Wiki Manual|GRAMPS manual]]. This manual is also available from within GRAMPS using the {{man key press|F1 }} key (which opens this manual in a browser window), or from the help menu.
==Getting started==
Translating GRAMPS' documentation into a new language is a long, tedious, and boring process, just like with any complex text :-) Since GRAMPS version 3.0 the documentation is was moved completely inside to this wiki. So for translation you don't need to use or even install any fancy applications to help us. You can use your browser and start immediately. Just go to the [[Gramps 3.3 Wiki Manual|User Manual]] page, click on your language. You should could keep the english manual open to check if there is a help page missing.
The general [[Help:Contents|wiki help page]] will help you editing wiki pages. This wiki uses the [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] software, which is the same that is used by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia], so it could feel familiar.
==Translating==
* Figures: localized screenshots are nice in the localized manual
** If you can provide figures on your own this is great. Upload them to this wiki with the following naming convention: <code>figure_name_zz.png</code> (<code>zz</code> is your language code). If the figure is language independent just call it <code>figure_name.png</code>.
** If it's too much trouble for you, just let us know and perhaps somebody else will do it for you. Fortunately, one does not have to speak the language to make screenshots :-)
** For maintenance, it could be more easy to follow a naming scheme :
*** filename-''{gramps version number}-{locale}''.png <pre>Mainwin-3133-mkfr.png</pre>*** filename_''{gramps version number}_{locale}''.png <pre>Mainwin_31_mkMainwin_33_fr.png</pre>
==Links to wiki manual==
To have the link working in your recently translated manual available from within GRAMPS, you . You need to have or edit activate the manual by editing the following file: '''[https://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gramps/trunk/src/GrampsDisplay.pyGrampsDisplay.py]''' file to contain your languagecode, you may also contact the developers of Gramps by opening a ''Feature request'' for the new language on the [[Using_the_bug_tracker |Bug tracker]]. On line 30 32 of that file, you see:
MANUALS = {
}
This maps a language code to the extension used on the wiki, so to add french, change this tooto:
MANUALS = {
Note that reports/tools link to a section in the page with the same name as the report name in GRAMPS.
*You should be able to edit directly on wiki or using tools like [http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/txt2po #mediawiki txt2po]. Also previous gettext file for the manual and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_memory Translation Memory] may help you to upgrade deprecated/old gettext files. ==Possible improvement== A project like [http://www.gnucash.org/ GnuCash] provides a complete web site environment by using gettext files, see [http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/htdocs/trunk/README README file] and current [http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/htdocs/trunk/ environment].
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