[schooltool-dev] SchoolTool translation

[Tom Hoffman]

Hi Denis,

Sorry for the delayed response.  Your email slipped down in my inbox
for a few weeks...

On 6/1/07, Denis Melnikov <dmelnik at regent.ru> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've almost translated SchoolTool into Russian.

Excellent!

> There are several entries left that I don't know
> how to translate (if needed at all) because
> a context isn't clear.
> Can you tell me their sense?

Some of these don't make any sense to me either.

> R
> /browser/templates/section_instructors.pt:25

?

> overlaid from %s
> /home/jinty/src/schooltoolrepo/schooltool-0.11.x/src/schoolbell/app/browser/pdfcal.py:212

This refers to the source of the event -- another way of saying it
would be "this event comes from the %s calendar"

> Calendar_relationships
> /home/jinty/src/schooltoolrepo/schooltool-0.11.x/src/schoolbell/app/rest/templates/resource.pt:17 /home/jinty/src/schooltoolrepo/schooltool-0.11.x/src/schoolbell/app/rest/templates/group.pt:16 /home/jinty/src/schooltoolrepo/schooltool-0.11.x/src/schoolbell/app/rest/templates/person.pt:15
>
> Calendar_ACL
> /home/jinty/src/schooltoolrepo/schooltool-0.11.x/src/schoolbell/app/rest/templates/resource.pt:20 /home/jinty/src/schooltoolrepo/schooltool-0.11.x/src/schoolbell/app/rest/templates/group.pt:19 /home/jinty/src/schooltoolrepo/schooltool-0.11.x/src/schoolbell/app/rest/templates/person.pt:18

I don't think any of the messages from these "rest" templates should
be translated.

> C
> /timetable/browser/templates/advancedtts.pt:51 /timetable/browser/templates/advancedtts.pt:156
>
> X
> /timetable/browser/templates/advancedtts.pt:58

I don't know what these refer to.

> Should I translate *-button, e.g. delete-button, add-button;
> if so, in which case?
>
> add-button
> /browser/templates/section_add.pt:64
> /browser/templates/section_add.pt:69
>
> delete-button
> /browser/templates/section_container.pt:83
> /browser/templates/container.pt:44
> /browser/templates/course_container.pt:57

I'm not sure.

> One more question: how to discredit a translator?
> The man makes awful translations, from misspelling
> to absolute transformation of sense.

I'll look into this.  We'll have a new release in Ubuntu Gutsy, so I
want to start tightening things up.

--Tom