We want to start the 'Programming In D 'in Chinese, do you have any good suggestions?

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/10/2016 07:41 AM, Seb wrote:
 > On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 14:26:31 UTC, FrankLike wrote:
 >> Hi,everyone:
 >>   The 'Programming In D' is a good book for new D coders,we want to
 >> start it in Chinese, do you have any good suggestions?
 >>
 >> Thank you.
 >
 > If you want you can also start to translate the DLang Tour
 > (tour.dlang.org).
 > It already has multi-lingual support, and we will start translating it
 > soon - we just wait until the major wave of improvements is in.
 >
 > https://github.com/stonemaster/dlang-tour/issues/132

Agreed! I think that project has immediate impact and I think smaller in 
scope.

 > If you want to translate the 'Programming in D', you should ping Ali
 > directly for help. You can find his contact details here:
 > http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/

Right. For convenience, here are some information to the translators:

The following is a modified version of what I had written for a German 
translation (which did not happened). The information assumes that the 
translation remains as a subdirectory of the ddili project. Otherwise, 
the translator can simply translate files one by one to a target 
location. Anyway, here is the information:

First, I would have to create the directory structure for the Chinese 
translation.

You would have to clone the repo after that:

   https://bitbucket.org/acehreli/ddili

If you clone that repository and 'make' everything, there should be the 
following files generated:

   src/ders/d.cn/编程在D.print.pdf
   src/ders/d.cn/编程在D.pdf
   public_html_test/ders/d.cn/*

(Or we can leave the file names in Latin characters as 
Programming_in_D.print.pdf, etc.)

Chapter files end with .d and the solutions for a chapter are in the 
file that ends with .cozum.d (e.g. hello_world.d and hello_world.cozum.d).

As described in the top-level README, you have to have Prince XML 
installed as well as a recent dmd compiler. (I think I've neglected to 
write there that Linux is a requirement as well.)

Also, you need to add a new ChineseAlphabet class to alphabet.d and 
associate it with the "chinese" language in that file. Temporarily, it 
uses EnglishAlphabet.

To make the editing process easier, you should only make the 'test' 
target and open the relevant chapter on your local browser. For example, 
open the following file:

   public_html_test/ders/d.cn/hello_world.html

Of course, feel free to rename the chapter files to Chinese ones.

This is what I constantly do when editing a chapter:

1) Open the file in my browser

2) Edit the chapter in most amazing editor

3) Alt-Tab to switch to the browser

4) F5 to update the page

I recommend against building the pdf versions frequently because that 
takes a lot of time.

Please contact me at acehreli at yahoo.com to start the process and to see 
how it goes. Would you be open to having one or more technical editors 
review the chapters as you post a pull request? That would improve the 
quality.

Ali