#ubuntu-doc report for 2004-01-06

[Sean Wheller]

On Saturday 08 January 2005 08:51, Christoph Haas wrote:
> > Later on, as Froud brough in new issues like print/screen quality,
> > themes and window decorations, the discussion evolved and Froud
> > eventually wrote everything into an excellent "Taking Screen Captures"
> > section in the
> > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AboutTheUbuntuCoreDocumentationProject
> > wiki page.  It's especially nice the imagemagick hack that allows to
> > take screenshots at the desired dpi resolution.
>
> Looks good. Are the translators happy about that? Because for us this is
> easy. :)

I think there is balance. Following the guidelines provide in 
'AboutTheUbuntuCoreDocumentationProject' should keep images to a minimum. In 
other words, it does not make sense to just add screens for the sake of the 
look. In most every instance, except Quick Guide, the documents will be 
spartan of pictures. In Quick Guide I think we are talking about one screen 
per application. This should not be to bad.

Also take into consideration that our framework is also reducing much of the 
overhead for translators. The menus and increased use of the combination of 
External Entities, XInclude and XPointer will help make work load lighter.

In addition, since we are using XML, the translators are more likely to use po 
files and translation memories to semi--automate translations. 
-- 
Sean Wheller
Technical Author
sean at inwords.co.za
http://www.inwords.co.za
Registered Linux User #375355
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