Hi all :-) This looks to me to be a discussion among programmers or people thinking in the programmers way. Why not relax and start thinking from scratch, independent of what programs and editors etc. are valuable? When starting a project I usually put together a list something like this: 1. What do we need? a. A database (DB) or similar containing all files necessary to build the help files. One DB for every language or one containing them all. b. A program for editing the files in the DB. (On my home computer, not directly on the DB). c. A program to automatically build the necessary html/dbf files for the end user every time the contents in the DB is changed for a particular language (if the DB files are in another format than html). 2. What do we have? a. A DB containing the actual files in xml format. Every language in each file. b. Programs to automatically build the html and dbf files for each language. c. Some more or less usefully editors. 3. What do I wish? a. An editor showing the original language together with my language. Also the possibility to read other languages at the same time at my own choose. b. I should be able to set the editor to show one line, one paragraph or the whole page in each chosen language at will. c. All or most of the necessary codes (tags) generated by the editor. I only have to write the plain text. d. If I'm an author, I also am able to write new original text or change it. e. All up- and downloads to/from the DB is done automatically when I chose to do so. f. The whole system should be OS independent. 4. Find programs to fulfill my wishes. (This is of course a very coarse listing, lots of details would be added if in real use). According to this list it seems that the greatest problem at the moment is the lack of an editor This discussions remind me of the start of the computer era: We have invented a fantastic machine, what do we use it for? Well, I'm not a programmer, only a user. (Although I have written some short programs in different languages when needed to). The threshold for becoming a writer/author is at the moment too high. The golden question is how to lower this threshold? I used unnecessary amount of time to learn how to do this and that before I even was able to do what I want to do: translate. (Thanks to you all and especially Julien for leading me step by step on the road to understanding). Perhaps I am out in the wilderness? Perhaps I have misunderstood the whole discussion? Perhaps the list is completed without my notice? Perhaps I should not sent this mail? Perhaps ... Kolbjørn _______________________________________________ Gimp-docs mailing list Gimp-docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs
