[Koha-devel] New User

[paul POULAIN]

Desarrollo Koha a écrit :

> Hello:
> I come from Sevilla (Spain) and I am trying to translate koha 2,0RC1 
> to spanish in order to use it at the "Conservatorio Superior de Musica 
> Manuel Castillo de Sevilla", a school music where we want to replace 
> the Windows proprietary software for the library management with an 
> Open Source solution (better for Linux systems). 

Hi from France :-)

> I have been looking for different systems and I think koha may be the 
> best solution for our requeriments. 

good.

> I would like to know how to release the work to the community while I 
> am translating that (Currently working on the default theme). 

Very good.

> I have found that could be a good thing to work in some kind of 
> replacing the "hard coded" text with gettext (the original spanish 
> translation is quite old comparing the templates with the english ones 
> and it doesn't work well), and it could take advantages to maintain 
> the translations without changing code. 

DO NOT translate manually the spanish templates, that are outdated 
you're right.
But look in misc/translator directory, file translator_doc.txt
Now we have a tool to create translated versions of Koha without having 
to manually report any html change in english templates. Something like 
gettext, but that works BEFORE execution, a kind of "gettext-compiler".
Use it on OPAC 1st to check it works fine in spanish (a few bugs may be 
still present, but it works fine for french translation).

HTH (& sure it does :-) )

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)