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+The translations for evolution-guide should be placed in
+evolution/doc/<LANG_CODE>
+
+In this directory you'll find two scripts.
+ - update_po.pl -- Usage: ./update_po.pl <LANG_CODE>
+ Takes the sgml files from the C directory and creates sgml.po files
+ in a directory called <LANG_CODE>.po
+ You should translate this files as you would any other .po file, but
+ you have to make sure you place all tags and don't miss anyone.
+
+ - update_translation.pl -- Usage: ./update_translation.pl <LANG_CODE>
+ Takes the sgml files from the C directory, the sgml.po files from the
+ <LANG_CODE>.po directory and creates the translated sgml files and
+ places them on the <LANG_CODE> directory.
+ If a paragraph it is not translated the originial paragraph in english
+ is used instead (fuzzy paragraph are considered as translated for the
+ moment). Ding it this way you can make sure you didn't miss any sgml
+ tag on the .po files by compiling the evolution guide.
+
+Of course, translations can be done as usual translating the .sgml files
+directly.
+But let me point out a few advantages of doing it this way.
+* You can start translating the guide as soon as you want. Doesn't matter if
+ the original files changes. No more waiting for the docu to be called
+ stable.
+
+* When a paragraph changes, it is marked as fuzzy, so you don't have to be
+ playing with diff to find out if the original sgml file changed and where.
+
+* You don't need to keep several copies of the sgml files (usually you have
+ to keep a copy of the file you are translating and an up-to-date copy to be
+ able to do a diff, to find out the changes)
+
+
+If you want to make any modification to my scripts, please let me know before
+you do so and send me an explanation of the changes you want to make (this is
+only for learning purposes, I allways like to know how to make a better script)
+Of course, the scripts are under GPL, so you can do with them allmost anything
+you want.
+If you want to use this scripts in any other project different from the
+evolution guide translation, please let me know (just to make me fell good
+because people is using something I wrote ;-) )
+
+
+Héctor García Álvarez <hector@scouts-es.org>