Re: [Libreoffice] [GSOC] Report #5. Wizards

2011/6/30 Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com>

> Hi Xisco,
>
> On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 18:28 +0200, Xisco Faulí wrote:
> > Correct me if i'm wrong but as i've seen in the fax wizard,each kind
> > of template has its own template so I believe it's the same for the
> > letter templates and every localize has a different template, right ?
>
>         Um ;-) in theory yes, but in reality no - having a duplicated ODF
> file
> for each and every translation (duplicating all the XML, all embedded
> images etc. etc.) bloated our install sets to some huge size for no good
> reason :-)
>
> >  In that case, the templates are the ones that should be changed,
> > right ?
>
>         Weelll - so you're both right; but really we need to grub about
> inside
> the templates themselves to add some improved translation scheme I
> think; now we have fast native XSLTs - I guess we could use the native
> XSLT filters to allow the templates to be self-standing, and yet adapt
> to the locale nicely.
>
>        But - your task is primarily the Java -> python conversion I guess
> :-)


Yes, you're right but if I have some time before gsoc finishes (or even
after) I'd like to  take a look to it. Who should I get in contact with in
order to get my feet wet ?

>

       All the best,
>                Michael.
>
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