cvs commit: doc/es_ES.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports chapter.sgml

[Hiroki Sato]

Vicente Carrasco -Bixen- <carvay at FreeBSD.org> wrote
  in <49232B76.106 at FreeBSD.org>:

ca> Hiroki Sato(e)k dio:
ca> > I think using <quote> instead of &[lr]aquo; is more reasonable.  The
ca> >  <quote> element in DocBook is just for in-line text with quotation
ca> >  marks, not implying either citation or other semantics.  So, if you
ca> >  just want to add quotation marks around a text, not for emphasizing
ca> >  it, using <quote> is the right way.
ca> >
ca>
ca>
ca> I'm pretty sure that you're right, the reasonable, and canonical way
ca> of doing that things in DocBook (probably in English and other
ca> languages) is that. I have no doubt about it. But I think that it's a
ca> good idea using [lr]aquo; in *our* texts because:
ca>
ca> - it's easier to type than <quote> and </quote>. One of the reasons of
ca> - our lack of translators in our branch of FDP is that they can't just
ca> - type, and they have to type a lot of tags, acutes and so on.

 The quotation mark should be considered separately from alphabet with
 accent mark.  I agree that translated documents directly use such
 characters instead of something like &acute;, but I cannot agree that
 &laquo; is easier than <quote>.  If we allow the translator to remove
 a tag for a reason that she just does not want to type a lot of tags,
 we cannot keep the consistency.  What do you mean exactly by "easy to
 type" and "they cannot type it"?  While for alphabet I can understand
 because the translator needs to type a lot of entities if we enforce
 to use stuff like &acute; instead of raw character, I think there is
 no difference between the two (&laquo; vs <quote>) in terms of ease.

 We must decide which should be used based on its reasonability
 anyway.  Would you elaborate the reason more specifically?

ca> - The quotes that you got when using [lr]aquo; are called "latin". That
ca> - sounds interesting to me, as a translator to Spanish, for obvious
ca> - reasons ;-)

 If you want to use another kind of quotation mark in the localized
 document, change stylesheet, not the document itself.

--
| Hiroki SATO

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