[Freeciv-Dev] XML for help texts? (Was: Historical background on wonders
[Top] [All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index] [Thread Index]
Jeff Mallatt wrote:
> - Rather than forcing our poor, overworked translators to re-translate
> every Wonder help text, I put your texts in a new entry called
> "historytext". This also allows for more flexibility in displaying the
> information -- however, for now, I simply changed the code to concatenate
> the help and history texts.
>
> - Unfortunately, the formatting requirements for text in the rulesets is
> rather strict, and is undocumented. One thing, each line needs to end with
> a "\" (this also implies no trailing whitespace). I went through every
> entry, fixing formatting problems.
>
> - And, I noticed and corrected one content error: the Statue of Liberty
> does not stand on Ellis Island, it's on Liberty (formerly Bedloe's) Island.
Because the statements above,
because my plan to embed a lightweight HTML engine into the help dialog
because the wish to include pictures
and finally because of the idea to create a printable documentation:
Shouldn't we convert the help texts in to a XML format?
By using XSLT stylesheets those pages easily could converted into
XHTML, plain text and LaTeX or PS/PDF.
The major problem I see is how to keep translations synchronized...
Parsing could be done with the lightweight libxml aka. gnome-xml
(http://www.xmlsoft.org/) by Daniel Veillard...
For HTML rendering we could use XmHTML (available for Xt *and* as
GtkXmHTML also for Gtk+) or GtkHTML (for Gtk+ only).
If someone cares about memory footprint we could still have a
ASCII text browser available as compile time option or as dll
(as far I know autoconf handles platform independent creation
of them...)
Ciao,
Mathias
--
PGP: 1024-Bit DSA: ID 55E572F3, 1024-Bit RSA: ID EAAF7CF1
WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~hasselma/
http://www.dominanz-haus.de/
[Freeciv-Dev] Re: historical background on wonders, Martin Willemoes Hansen, 2000/07/08
[Freeciv-Dev] Historical background on wonders, ZENIT News Agency, 2000/07/17
[Freeciv-Dev] Re: XML for help texts? (Was: Historical background on wonders), Martin Willemoes Hansen, 2000/07/18
[Freeciv-Dev] Re: XML for help texts? (Was: Historical background on wonders), Mathias Hasselmann, 2000/07/18
|
|