tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 27 19:52:51 2003
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Re: Klingon UI Questions
On Saturday 27 December 2003 10:51, ...Paul wrote:
> This is probably being carried out on whatever board/mailing list
> you guys are discussing the OpenOffice translation, but I'm not on
> there (yet), and I thought I'd pose the issue I ran into myself a
> while back.
We do have a mailing list and a web site. Both are linked below.
>
> Back in '99, I was working at ONElist (we later merged with eGroups
> and then got acquired by Yahoo to become Yahoo Groups), and we were
> developing our own CGI templating engine (which got re-written in
> the public domain as the "ClearSilver" toolkit, see
> www.clearsilver.net).
Thanks for this info.
>
> Anyway, to test the system, I worked up a Klingon UI, and started
> developing a lexicon of terms for use. I unfortunately did not keep
> that lexicon around, which is probably for the best, since, in
> retrospect, I was stretching my limits a bit thin.
Well, maybe not. It sure would be interesting to run it up the flag
pole and see what the Klingonists here thought of it. Never hurts to
try!
>
> What do people conjecture the Klingon UI model of choice would be?
That exactly raises the point that we are asking in our localization.
Unfortunately, in order to decide that issue, we need someone who is
both a fluent linguist and good with computers, a tall order to say
the least, to take the lead and offer guidance to questions like
yours.
We now have a good foundation for organizing Klingonists who are
interested in translating words for the OOo Klingon localization
project in that we have a web site and a mailing list. Here's the web
site.
http://www.pathtech.org/klingon/
And we have a mailing list, which you can subscribe to by send
an email to [email protected] with a body of subscribe
ooklingon. And we have identified a list of 11,000 words and phrases
that we need to translate to get the basic framework of a program
working. Here is the list of words that need to be translated in
different file formats, first being html:
http://l10n.openoffice.org/localization/OpenOffice_Glossary.html
Here's the OOo Writer
format:http://pathtech.org/openoffice/Klingon_OO_Glossary.sxc
Here's a zipped .doc
file:http://pathtech.org/openoffice/Klingon_OO_Glossary.zip
At this point, we need to find a computer-savvy
Klingonist who has the respect of the community to take on the
over-all leadershipof this project. I am periodically visiting
various Klingon sitesto solicit participation in our project.
I have also sent an email to Dr. Okrand to receive is imprimatur
for this project. I don't imagine that Dr. Okrand will be inclined or
have time to step forward to be the leader that we need. So Paul, if
you are interested, or know someone who is, we have an opportunity for
a Klingon enthusiast to really sink his or her teeth into a meaty
project! Thanks for your interest either way!
Christian Einfeldt
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