cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/checkpoint article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml catalog trademarks.ent

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.08.07 09:16:21 +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org> wrote
>   in <20030806233226.GE21194 at FreeBSD.org>:
> 
> simon> On 2003.08.07 08:20:59 +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> simon> > "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org> wrote
> simon> >   in <200308062148.h76LmeDf004506 at repoman.freebsd.org>:
> simon> > 
> simon> > simon>   trademark.ent:
> simon> > simon>    - Commonly used trademarks are defined as entities for ease of use.
> simon> > simon>    - All trademark attributions are defined as entities for ease of use.
> simon> > 
> simon> >  Why en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml?  This almost looks language-neutral to me.
> simon> 
> simon> The trademark entities are language neutral (e.g. java and powerpc), but
> simon> the attributions (e.g. tm-attrib.sun and tm-attrib.ibm) are in English
> simon> and can (and should IMO) be translated.
> 
>  We can put trademark.ent doc/share/sgml and the translators can translate
>  &tm-attrib.*; with overriding entities.  It is a hard job for the translation
>  teams to maintain duplicate copies of the file since, for example, when a new
>  trademark is added, they have to merge it (this is the reason why I split
>  en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/article.sgml recently).  To override
>  entities which need to be translated, we can avoid such situation.
> 
>  I think entities should be shared with the localized docs as much as possible,
>  and if it can be shared, it should not be in en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml.

If it makes life simpler for the translators, I agree it should be
moved, so I will move the file.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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