[Xerte] Re: Language

[Pat Lockley]

Cheers Tom - much appreciated.

Do we think of this as a version 2? Because if i am revisiting every
page then I might as well do databases.

Wondering if this change is enough for a version "2".

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:
> Pat, I can guarantee a Dutch and a Norwegian translation of your work... :-)
>
> Not sure what you want me to do Julian, but yes, count me in....
>
> Op 9-5-2011 23:51, Pat Lockley schreef:
>>
>> On 09/05/2011 22:34, Julian Tenney wrote:
>>>
>>> I was thinking earlier - it is simple enough to make the tempaltes multi
>>> lingual with lanaguages we store in the back end, but changing them to
>>> handle the author adding different languages is another thing entirely: how
>>> would the wizard work? There's a lot more work if the author can create
>>> multi language quizzes themselves.
>>>
>>> So the wizard needs some sort of language selctor, so that the wizard
>>> writes to the right language nodes in the xml. That would entail major
>>> archtectural changes, as the nodes are instantiated with a  lot of the text
>>> nodes / attributes in them: the wizard then edits them. Need to think about
>>> that more.
>>>
>>> I think the priorities are
>>>
>>> i) the toolkits application itself. So it can be installed and configured
>>> to a  locale.
>>> i) equal first, but maybe later, are the templates  as we discussed, for
>>> end users ( with a long term goal of multi language support for authors who
>>> want to author in more than one language. That has interseting connotations
>>> for oer, where an author may not be the first author, but can easily
>>> translate the content).
>>> i) any engine changes to support those things ( i.e. a language neutral
>>> interface, with configurable language elements for things where text is
>>> required (i.e. the items on the accessibility menus).
>>>
>>> I put my hand up for the third task, loading text from language xml files
>>> for the xerte default interface, and managing all that into the runtime. I'm
>>> putting Pats hand up for leading on the first task, I'm thinking Jonathan
>>> can do the second one, and Tom can write a plan and keeep us all in line.
>>> Other roles to be defined...
>>>
>>> Alistair and I had some thoughts about a developer nonference here at
>>> Nottingham sometime, maybe late September: that could be a useful event,
>>> which we are hoping might prove a catalyst in developing the open source
>>> commnity around the Xerte Project. This would be topical. At the very least
>>> we can provide a venue for a couple of days.
>>>
>>> If enough hands go up, we can start the ball rolling?
>>>
>>> Do we want a 'Xerte Developers' list?
>>
>> I think a Xerte techie list (for the website) would be good.
>>
>> I am not sure i want to lead - as a I worry i'll do a tonne of work and no
>> one will translate it. And i don't mind coding, but you know, i'd sooner not
>> have to learn french.
>>
>> A nonference sounds a plan - but how many of us would be UK?
>>
>> Pat
>>
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