[tei-council] Setting up chapters for translation
Lou Burnard
lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Mon Mar 25 14:58:44 EDT 2013
On 25/03/13 17:19, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On 25 Mar 2013, at 16:55, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> - Shall we go ahead and fragment the CO chapter as a test?
>>
> if Florence does not choose to translate CO, I am not sure what its
> a test of? I am inclined to say do all chapters now or wait
> until we need to
I can't see that it makes a lot of difference whether we split them all
now or as and when we need to, but I've always been a "just-in-time"
kind of person myself.
>
>> - If so, do we believe that the granularity of the fragmenting (level
>> 1 sections) is correct, or should we be breaking things down further?
>>
> I'd say below div1 is impractical
you mean div2. We already do xincludes for all the div1s in the file
guidelines-xx.xml
>
>> - Should we keep the overview in the main structure file, along with
>> the intro?
>
> i am inclined to yes. have a single file with the whole structure, and one huge set of XIncluded <div>1
see above. i otoh think it would be simpler just need to revise each
XX-chapter.xml file to be a container for each of *its* top level divs
(in the older chapters these are labelled @type=div2)
> and I'd suggest to Florence that pretty please translate the whole structure into French
> first, then do a bunch of <div>1 at her leisure. Then we have a French Guidelines
> in skeletal form ready to roll.
Not sure what you mean by that, nor what advantage it would give over
tweaking the current guidelines-fr.xml
> it would also make file management easier if we had
>
> guidelines-en.xml
> guidelines-fr.xml
> divs-fr/*.xml
> divs-en/*.xml
if you like. i was assuming
a. take current CO. xml and replace all of its top level divs by
xincludes of files named for the current xml:id value e.g COPA.xml,
CONU.xml etc.
b. copy that to a new CO-fr.xml which is then xincluded by
guidelines-fr.xml
c. when e.g. COPA.xml gets translated, we add a new file COPA-fr.xml and
tweak the xInclude in CO-fr.xml to include that instead of COPA.xml
d. if e.g. COPA.xml is modified subsequently we will notice that its
date is more recent than that of COPA-fr.xml and ring appropriate alarum
bells
There will be less need to tweak the xInclude statements if we keep the
directory structure flat, obvs.
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