[Foundation-l] leaflets

Mon Mar 3 12:17:36 UTC 2008

Hello,

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Guillaume Paumier wrote:
>
>  > I think you're mixing two very different matters. What needs to be
>  > translated or adapted is the content, i.e. the *text*. And each
>  > language should write their own text, because it's always better than
>  > translation. On the other hand, there's the design and the layout,
>  > which don't change across languages. Once the text is written, it
>  > takes nothing to add it to an existing layout.
>
>
>  Depends on the leaflet. If you show a screenshot from a Wikipedia, it has to
>  be from the language of the reader. Also, the selection of pictures
>  interesting for a German can differ from the one for a Dutch. For example,
>  people want to see content from their own country (at least one picture or
>  item), even if - or especially when - you present the internationality of
>  the Wikipedia.

Yes, but in this case there is even less to translate, and even more
preparatory work to do (which was the point I was addressing in my
reply).

-- 
Guillaume Paumier
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