[bt-devel] Docbook - entity question

Martin Gruner bt-devel@crosswire.org
Sun, 16 Dec 2001 20:33:00 +0100


Hi Fred,

> Would making application names and other such items that should not be
> translated be make entities?  I wounder if this would stop kbable from
> attempting to translate the application name "sword" to the german
> equivelant of "war knife".  Sorry I don't remember the exact german
> words here.

This would be "Schwert" =)

(With my very limited knowledge of this area) I like your idea.

> examples can be found in the general.entities file in our case the
> entities would be added to the index.docbook file so the problem might
> still exist at that point.

You could probably introduce such a file in
bibletime-doc/docs/general.identities
which would be common for all languages, and not translated. Does that make 
sense?

Martin