Re: [PHP-DOC] Manual notes, languages and editor's comments From: Jon Parise (jon <email protected>)
Date: 08/21/00

On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:49:30AM -0700, Jesus Castagnetto wrote:

> BTW, what became of the idea translated manual and notes in the
> corresponding language?. The majority of responses I got from people
> in the PHP Spanish list was: "Do not exclude the notes in english from
> the translated manual pages, because they contain important/useful
> information" Only one person out of 13 thought that putting notes only
> in (for example) Spanish would be good, but it was because he thought
> that *all* notes would be translated from one language to the next
> (automagically).

I think the best approach would be to fold the user notes into the
manual and then keep the manual translations in sync. It seems like
wasted effort to translate the notes themselves when any useful
information therein should be in the manual itself. 

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Jon Parise (jon <email protected>)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member