Re: ConTeXt on Excursion: translations in the Garden

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Zhichu Chen wrote:
> Hi Taco,
> 
> I've registered the project to translate it into Chinese. Anyhow, I have
> some questions now:
> 1, I'm using WinXP, so I downloaded gnu make and other core files for
> windows from gnuwin32.sourceforge.net. I don't know if it will work well.

Vit write the makefile. Is all of that actually make syntax? wow.

> But I think I can compile it manually.

I would think so too. But if it is all proper makefile stuff, then
it will run fine with the gnuwin toolkit.

> 2, When I run "make en" or manually compile ma-cb-en, I got an error that
> \secretsetup is undefined. I think my ConTeXt is new enough:
> ConTeXt  ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII  fmt: 2007.4.20  int: english/english
> 3, I've never used svn before, so I'm afraid if I upload my source to the
> svn server, would it harm other files? I only made change to makefile and
> create a folder called cn (for Chinese).

It is (supposed to be) impossible to mess up version controlled
files completely, after all: that is the point of using a version
control system in the first place. At worst, you can create some
temporary chaos that an expert needs to look at.

I firmly agree with Arthur on the zh vs. cn issue, btw.

Best, Taco
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