On Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:00:14 +0200 Helge Kreutzmann <deb...@helgefjell.de> wrote: > > + <title>Greatly expanded translations of man pages</title> > > + <para> > > + Thank to many efforts of our translators, the translation of many > > > > That feels like one many too many for one sentence. > > There are often (but not always) several translators working on many > translations. So you could remove the first "many". > > > > > + manpages has been greatly expanded (e.g. we have complete > > translation > > + of systemd user pages into German now) and various new languages > > have > > + been added (Czech, Danish, Greek, Finnish, Indonesian, Macedonian, > > + Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukranian and Vietnamesian). > > > > I happen to know that "Norwegian" is ambiguous? There's Bokmål and Nynorsk. > > I assume the former is meant, maybe "Norwegian (Bokmål)"? > > > > My spelling checker also suggests Ukrainian and Vietnamese. > > I apologize for the sloppy wording/spelling. Please correct all three.
Shouldn't it include - what is a 'man' page - i bet many people don't know this nowadays! - how do i install and use the new translations? (do i choose what language 'man foo' gives me? is it automatic if my locale is correct? do i need a new package? - i certainly don't know this bit!) I also thought - "new languages" is unclear: does it really mean all those languages have been added for the first time ever? (seems a bit unlikely to me, but that';s how i read the diff?) - too many repetition of "translation" - focus on the benefit to users (new stuff) not the mechanism of how it was made! - is "user" needed in the bit about systemd? (i assume not) - seems odd to put completion of systemd before adding the other languages (based on my assumption about the number of people likely benefiting) - i assume there is no way to count the translations? eg would be very nice if it said "(x% translated)" after each language So something like: <title>Many more man pages have been translated</title> <para> Thanks to our translators, documentation in <command>man</command>-page format is available in many more languages. For example, many more <!-- or "for the first time,"? --> man pages are now available in Czech, Danish, Greek, Finnish, Indonesian, Macedonian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese, and all <systemitem role="package">systemd</systemitem> man pages are now available in German. </para> <para> To ensure the <command>man</command> command shows you documentation in your language (where possible), install the <systemitem role="package">manpages</systemitem><!-- is it? --> package and select your language using <programlisting>dpkg-reconfigure locales</programlisting>. </para>
