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Re: Docbook & Internationalization

cramerdw Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:46 am

Joined: 20 May 2005

Posts: 7

Re: Docbook & Internationalization

We`ve gone to Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and
Dutch using a DocBook-based tool chain.

Plan to use this technique
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/IndexIntl.html (so pick your xsl
processor accordingly, probably Saxon) to get sorted indexes in print.

If Japanese is important to you, I`d assume that Antenna House`s xsl
formatter would have an advantage (a Japanese company):
http://www.antennahouse.com/, but I don`t have detailed information
about the current versions of commercial renderers and how they handle
Japanese.

This is a little old by now, but might still be helpful (Eliot Kimber`s
comparison of fo renderers):
http://www.isogen.com/papers/production-quality-xsl-fo.pdf

What formats are you planning to generate? Btw., you might also direct
this question to the docbook-apps list.

David

> -----Original Message-----
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Behalf
> Of gszabo007
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 11:01 AM
> To: xml-doc@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [xml-doc] Docbook & Internationalization
>
> We`re evaluating whether to use Docbook (XML) and Norm Walsh`s
> stylesheets.
>
> If any of you have used Docbook & these stylesheets in an environment
> where the output was being delivered into various languages, I would
> greatly appreciate your feedback as to whether the
internationalization
> went well, what challenges we can anticipate, etc.
>
> Any feedback on translation issues related to japanese would be
> especially appreciated.
>
> Thanks -
> - george
>
>

gszabo007 Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:39 pm

Joined: 03 Oct 2005

Posts: 4

Re: Docbook & Internationalization

> What formats are you planning to generate? >

PDF & chunked HTML.

Thanks so much for your feedback.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xml-doc@yahoogroups.com [mailto:xml-doc@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf
> > Of gszabo007
> > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 11:01 AM
> > To: xml-doc@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [xml-doc] Docbook & Internationalization
> >
> > We`re evaluating whether to use Docbook (XML) and Norm Walsh`s
> > stylesheets.
> >
> > If any of you have used Docbook & these stylesheets in an
environment
> > where the output was being delivered into various languages, I
would
> > greatly appreciate your feedback as to whether the
> internationalization
> > went well, what challenges we can anticipate, etc.
> >
> > Any feedback on translation issues related to japanese would be
> > especially appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks -
> > - george
> >
> >

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