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+               <title>Writing and translating documentation in Debian Edu</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Documentation in Debian Edu is provided in several languages, and
+it is important to make it both easy to contribute and to keep the
+translated versions in sync.  To do this we have come up with what we
+believe is a very efficient work flow.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ol&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The documentation is written in a moinmoin wiki (see for example
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;the
+Squeeze release manual&lt;/a&gt;) with support for exporting the content as
+docbook XML.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;This docbook document is given to po4a to extract a gettext style
+.pot file with the content, which in turn is used to create .po files
+with the translated text.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The .po files are given to translators, and they can always tell
+which part of the original wiki document is new or changed.  They can
+use their normal translation tools like lokalize or poedit to write
+the translation.  There is even a system in place to handle translated
+images.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The translated .po files are combined with the original docbook
+XML document using po4a to create a translated docbook document.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The final step is to use all the generated docbook files and
+create PDF and HTML version of the original and translated documents.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This setup work very well, but have a few issues.  The biggest
+issue is that the docbook support in moinmoin is not actively
+maintained.  This make it hard to upgrade moinmoin.  The docbook
+support is also buggy, and our build system contain lots of
+workarounds to make sure the generated docbook is usable despite these
+bugs.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to have a look at our setup, it is all there in the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/debian-edu-doc&quot;&gt;debian-edu-doc
+package&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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