Hello, this is a common concern for the translation of libre resources. It would be indeed better if English would not be such a central language in our systems, for many reasons. Using esperanto as a pivot language instead would indeed be a very pleasant change. But to be honnest, I doubt to see that in my lifetime. There is too few esperanto speaker in the world in general, and in libre communities in particular. We would probably not have that many contributors to po4a if esperanto were a prerequisite for that... Plus, actually, nothing in po4a nor in po forces to use english as a pivot language. It's just the habit. And the message you are refering too is some sort of a shortcut. The sentence is already complex enough that I did not felt to make it worse by changing "English" to "original language" here. If you have a better formulation that is both more neutral and simpler, I'd be glad to integrate it. Thanks for noticing, Mt ----- Le 29 Mar 21, à 11:55, Marco Ciampa ciampix(a)posteo.net a écrit : > Hello, devs, > I was translating the po4a docs when I stumbled into this: > > #. type: textblock > #: doc/po4a.7.pod:13 > msgid "" > "The idea is to reuse and adapt the gettext approach to this field. As with " > "gettext, texts are extracted from their original locations and presented to " > "translators as PO translation catalogs. The translators can leverage the " > "classical gettext tools to monitor the work to do, collaborate and organize " > "as teams. po4a then injects the translations directly into the documentation " > "structure to produce translated source files that can be processed and " > "distributed just like the English files. Any paragraph that is not " > "translated is left in English in the resulting document, ensuring that the " > "end users never see an outdated translation in the documentation." > > I am wondering... would be possible, maybe in the future, to use po4a to > translate not only from english but also from another ausiliary language? > > Why not, Esperanto, for instance? > > -- > > Saluton, > Marco Ciampa > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list -- devel(a)lists.po4a.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave(a)lists.po4a.org

Hi Marco, Quoting Marco Ciampa (2021-03-29 11:55:17) If I understand your question correctly, then that is possible already today: I have used po4a for translation projects with not english but french being the reference language, and there should be no obstacles to do the same with esperanto as reference language. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private