[lojban] Re: {WebMaster} Site Update: New translatable files.

[Adam Raizen <araizen@newmail.net>]

de'i li 2003-06-29 ti'u li 14:57:00 la'o zoi. Robin Lee Powell .zoi cusku di'e

>On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 02:25:27PM +0200, Adam Raizen wrote:
>> The text to be translated should not be broken up like that. In
>> other words, instead of asking the translator to translate "Robin
>> Turner and Nick Nicholas's", "Lojban For Beginners", and
>> "lessons.", it should ask for one translation of "Robin Turner and
>> Nick Nicholas's <a
>> href="http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/book1.html";>Lojban
>> For Beginners</a> lessons."
>
>Given that thus far at least three people have failed to understand
>the formmating of the translation file, I think expecting them to
>understand HTML is a lot of a stretch.

Since it's only a matter of copying and pasting the correct text
at the correct point in the translation, I doubt it will be a problem.
This is already the state of the translation file for other html
element such as <em> and <strong> anyway. If someone misunderstands
and does it incorrectly, then you correct them. It's not that big a
deal. The current system is broken.

>> >> Also the Hebrew version is displayed incorrectly; I think
>> >> because browsers assume that it is ltr text instead of rtl,
>> >> even with explicitly including the Unicode rtl sign, so if you
>> >> have a chance to add a dir tag to be translated, it would be
>> >> helpful.
>> >
>> >I don't understand what you are asking for.
>> 
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2
>> 
>> I.e., a paragraph tag in English would be <p dir="ltr"> but in
>> Hebrew would be <p dir="rtl">.
>
>For *every* paragraph on the site?
>
>You must be joking.
>
>I could do a trick in CSS, I supoosed.  Send a request along these
>lines to request@lojban.org, please.

Either CSS, or it seems that you could put the dir attribute in the
html tag and it would be inherited by the entire document.

mu'o mi'e .adam.