[pmwiki-users] Suggestions for Parallel Language versions of Pages.

Mateusz Czaplinski czapkofan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 14:58:50 CDT 2007


On 9/18/07, Stirling Westrup <sti at pooq.com> wrote:
> I'm currently working on a Bilingual (English/French) site where most of the
> pages in the English/ group will be mirrored by a translation in the
> Francaise/ group and vice-versa.
>
> I would like to have a "Francaise" button in the English group which takes you
> to the equivalent French page, and an "English" button in the French group
> which takes you to the equivalent page.
>
> The question is, how should I best go about setting up these page
> equivalences? I can imagine a few methods such as:
>
> 2) Each page lists other pages by language, so that you might find an
> (:English: ... ) PTV in French pages and vice-versa. This allows me to expand
> the language list later (although I'm not sure we ever will).

A similar idea I once had (and it was before PTVs) that I'd mark as
"item 5)" in your list :)
Unfortunately, it has several obvious disadvantages, but I write that
here hoping that it may accidentally prod you in the right direction.

* begin the page with:

>>Translations<<
* English:cat
* French:chat
* ...
>><<

* set up InterWiki for English, French....
* set up styles to make the Translations block floated right and have
some border+bg


good luck!
Mateusz Czaplinski



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