[or-cvs] r20287: {translation} updated howto (translation/trunk/tools/gsoc09)

[runa at seul.org]

Author: runa
Date: 2009-08-14 12:12:25 -0400 (Fri, 14 Aug 2009)
New Revision: 20287

Modified:
   translation/trunk/tools/gsoc09/HOWTO
Log:
updated howto

Modified: translation/trunk/tools/gsoc09/HOWTO
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--- translation/trunk/tools/gsoc09/HOWTO	2009-08-14 15:46:52 UTC (rev 20286)
+++ translation/trunk/tools/gsoc09/HOWTO	2009-08-14 16:12:25 UTC (rev 20287)
@@ -4,6 +4,24 @@
 This text will try to explain the full process from checking out a copy
 of the website to building and publishing it.
 
+0. An introduction
+------------------
+
+WML, also known as Website Meta Language, is a HTML generation toolkit
+for Unix. It is a document description language based on XML for
+creating content and user interfaces.
+
+A .pot file is a template file which contains a list of all the
+translatable strings extracted from the sources (in this case, the .wml
+files).
+
+The translator would normally derive a .po file from the template before
+translating. This is something that Pootle will do for us.
+
+Pootle is a web portal designed to ease the translation process. Given a
+bunch of .pot (po-template) files, Pootle can generate the .po files
+needed for all supported languages. See http://translation.torproject.org/
+
 1. Update translations
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