From: Vincent Isambart <vincent.isambart@...>
Date: 2006-03-19T20:16:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Hacking Guide Translation

Hi,

Wilson Bilkovic wrote:
> Need some help on future chapters?
Meinrad Recheis wrote:
> i don't know japanese and i don't know english grammar and syntax
> well but i know a lot about graphics ... so i could be of help with
> the diagrams.

I do need help :). As written on the web page
http://rhg.rubyforge.org, if you want to help, come to the
rhg-discussion mailing list:
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rhg-discussion

Wilson Bilkovic wrote:
> I have a copy of the book, and my clumsy Japanese skills have been
> enough for manga and anime translations in the past. I could use
> the practice.

Well, to translate there is no need for the book itself (but I can't
hurt to have it ;)). It seems the book it out of print so getting one
seems now pretty hard.

Compared to anime and manga... well the vocabulary is quite different
and the grammar more complicated. But translating RHG is good practice
:).

Meinrad Recheis wrote:
> btw: wouldn't this translation be also a candidate for the pandora
> bookshelf?

Well, I did have a look at Pandora and I'm not sure it's really a good
candidate mainly because if I understand it well, it's made to edit
texts in your browser. For translating I need spell checking, to look
at the same time at my text in English and the original Japanese
version, open different dictionaries, stay a long time sometimes even
on one sentence. It also seems the docs are not stored in a human
readable format, which I think is a big plus. An other important point
is that most of the time I work on the translation, my computer is not
connected to the Internet...

But I do not know Pandora well, so you may prove me wrong.

For the moment I use RedCloth with a few modifications to better fit
my needs. Everything (including the translation themselves) is stored
on the RHG SubVersion repository on RubyForge.

Cheers,
Vincent ISAMBART