Install Guide now in Publican

[Ruediger Landmann]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> So would I be correct in thinking that's not what Publican does, and
> that entities are only supposed to be used in Publican docs to
> represent non-translatables like a year or a company name?
>   
Yes, that's correct. Publican is built on the KDE tool xml2pot, not the 
GNOME tool xml2po, and xml2pot doesn't have the "-e" option that xml2po 
does.

Publican uses xml2pot because it is /significantly/ faster than xml2po,  
which is important when handling the huge documents that we work with in 
Red Hat Engineering Content Services. To put the difference in 
perspective: while Publican was in early development, conversions of the 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Deployment Guide (a document of around 300,000 
words) were done with both tools. Xml2pot finished the entire run in all 
23 languages around the same time that xml2po finished the /first/ language!

That said, there are such obvious advantages to using entities such as 
&DISTRO; so this is something that will no doubt be revisited if and 
when xml2pot ever gets an option equivalent to "-e". But for now, we 
just can't do it.

Cheers
Rudi