[kde-doc-english]Re: Printing glossary

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Thomas Diehl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just got a mail from our German FAQ translator that he has to give up on 
> completing his work because of the extremely specialized stuff in the 
> printing glossary. Since PO translations

Sorry -- what are PO translations?

> have to be at 100% for the XML 
> conversion this basically means that we either lose _all_ the work being done 
> on FAQ translation or use an ugly workaround by copying the original strings 
> over to the translations, making it a mix of German and English strings.
> 
> After looking at the printing glossary myself I would strongly suggest to move 
> it out of the FAQ

I wrote the glossary. I know were to find it in KDE-3. I don't see any relation to
any FAQ. I only know it as a glossary. I didn't move it into any FAQ nor do I know
anything about anybody doing so.

What are you talking about, where do I find it?

> and keep it entirely separate. While I appreciate the 
> wealth of information it provides and I personally find its contents very 
> interesting (after all I'm in the printing business myself) it is certainly 
> not what I would call "Frequently Asked Questions"

I didn't call it such a thing; here it is in the "glossary" and that's were it
belongs. It explains a lot of special phrases, words and expressions that are
mentioned in the KDEPrint Handbook.

> like the others (ie: 
> questions of ordinary users). See typical examples below.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Thomas
> 
> +++++
> Easy Software Products
> 
> Mike Sweet's company, which has contributed a few substantial 
> software products towards the Free Software community; amongst them 
> the initial version of <ulink url=\"http://gimp-print.sf.net/\">Gimp-
> Print,</ulink> the <ulink url=\"http://www.easysw.com/epm/\">EPM 
> software packaging</ulink> tool and <ulink url=\"http://www.easysw.
> com/htmldoc/\">HTMLDOC</ulink> (used by the \"Linux Documentation 
> Project\" to build the PDF versions of the HOWTOs) -- but most 
> importantly: <ulink url=\"http://www.cups.org/\">&CUPS;</ulink> (the 
> 'Common &UNIX; Printing System'). ESP finance themselves by selling 
> a commercial version of &CUPS;, called <ulink url=\"http://www.
> easysw.com/\">ESP PrintPro,</ulink> that includes some professional 
> enhancements.
> 
> ++++++
> 
> Foomatic
> 
> Foomatic started out as the wrapper name for a set of different 
> tools available from <ulink url=\"http://www.linuxprinting.org/
> \">Linuxprinting.org</ulink> These tools aimed to make the usage of 
> traditional Ghostscript and other print filters easier for users and 
> extend the filters' capabilities by adding more command line 
> switches or explain the driver's execution data. Foomatic's 
> different incarnations are &CUPS;-O-Matic, PPD-O-Matic, PDQ-O-Matic, 
> LPD-O-Matic, PPR-O-Matic, MF-O-Matic and Direct-O-Matic. All of 
> these allow the generation of appropriate printer configuration 
> files online, by simply selection the suitable model and suggested 
> (or alternate) driver for that machine. More recently, Foomatic 
> gravitated towards becoming a \"meta-spooling\" system, that allows 
> configuration of the underlying print subsystem through a unified 
> set of commands (however, this is much more complicated than 
> KDEPrint's &GUI; interface, which performs a similar task with 
> regards to different print subsystems).
>