Quack Translates to Quack
Playing a little bit with Mallard, prompt by last GNOME Documentation Q&A session and by Shaun release of gnome-doc-utils 0.17.2, I tried to see what is the situation with Mallard and translations using the xml2po tool.
Well… looks like it works.
From this:
The English Man
To this:
The Italian Job
Well, it’s a start, and it’s almost working. There are a couple of descriptions that are still in English even if they have been translated, and I don’t really understand why those are still in English.
Anyway:
- Nothing has been done on xml2po to make it works
- After converting from PO to Mallard two files, since you have to convert one file at a time, I got bored and I wrote a stupid Python script
- Future looks bright and we might be able to ship Mallard doc with the 2.28 🙂
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Milo Casagrande 
recommendation: put the copyright in the about menu and not @ the bottom of the page (for aesthetic reasons)
Awesome. Nice to see a semi-working example. If Danilo or someone else doesn’t step up while I’m away, I’ll take a crack at the xml2po mode to make things a bit nicer.
Jay, this is using something very close to the default HTML transformations for Mallard in gnome-doc-utils. There are certainly things we can do to make the documents feel nicer inside Yelp. I’ll be looking into issues like that in the coming months.