Subj : de.komm.software.kreuzungspunkt
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Mar 18 2021 08:41:00

Hello Martin!

** On Thursday 18.03.21 - 11:44, you wrote to me:

 AA>> I found another online translator.  Here is the TOC using DeepL:

 AA>>    I Basics

 AA>>         1.1 FidoNet - structure and addressing
 AA>>         1.2 Point in FidoNet
 AA>>         1.3 The nodelist(s)

[...]

 AA>> "Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)"
 AA>> Do you see anything amiss above?

 MF> Nope, that's an excellent job. Is that exactly as it came
 MF> out or did you do a bit of tickling up?

That's the exact result, with indenting.  Mind you, since the  
original had indenting and added spacing, the proper spacing in  
the restul was noticeable after a cut'n'paste into Notpad or  
this wider editor space.

 MF> I'm asking because I tried it out with a short paragraph
 MF> and it came out looking like a dog's dinner.

Was your test with DeepL?

 AA>> I would suggest that we can split the effort..

 MF> I would NOT advise using the XPOINT echo for that purpose
 MF> as it's actually a gated *German* newsgroup. Some sort of
 MF> versioning system, such as git or svn, would be a far
 MF> better way of handling it IMO.

Yeh, I guess the "de." part in "de.comm.software.crosspoint"  
would be a clue.  :/  But the rest of the name is english. I  
mean, it's not like it's "komm.software.kreuzungspunkt"  :D

Personaly, I like the idea of managing a translation discussion  
with OXP, the product underdiscussion itself.  The built in  
search and threading would make it easy to follow a development.

Someone posted a samples of usage of the ftsc documentation in  
git.   https://github.com/zoomosis/ftsc   There, it looks pretty  
straightforward to make editing changes right on the spot and  
watch the progress.

I just learned about TortoiseSVN, since it support Windows. It  
looks like a fine tool for managing doc changes.

But I suppose we would need a webbased versioning system, not a  
local one for participants/editors?


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