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Re: LSC - current status?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 17 May 2006 16:25:29 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Chris Dee wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Willy Tschager wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > > In lugnet.cad.dev, Willy Tschager wrote:
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> > I'm not in the mood to add a meta-command to the part after it gets
> > supported by a prog, submit it for a single line and cancel all the votes it > may has collected.
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> > w.
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> Actually, I don't have a problem with changing part header information with an
> admin edit without destroying the existing votes, and have done this many times.
> I would draw the line at changing data which affects the integrity of the part -
> such as swicthing the BFC CERTIFY winding.
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> I believe this stance is consistent with not accepting HOLD votes for perceived
> problems in the header - the review should be of the CAD representation of the
> real part, not the metadata.
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> On the subject of internationalisation, I'd rather see the translations managed
> separately from the part files. This makes sense from an ownership perspective -
> someone with good English/Swedish skills could manage the Swedish translation
> table, but we can't expect the Library Admins to have full understanding of
> _all_ potential foreign languages. Whichever technique we use, it has an impact
> on the applications that use the library, just different impacts.
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> Chris
Could the translation not be managed at the user end? For example we could make
a program "partstranslate" which reads in one or more translation table(s) (just
Swedish in this case) and goes through all parts adding a new line something
like what follows
0 KEYWORDS (SWEDISH) transa, transb, transc
with translations of every keyword it can translate. This would mean that a
Swedish owner could then run this program whenever he or she updates their
library.
If this has legal implications, the keywords could be added to another file with
a list of parts and their translated keywords.
A part author could, of course, add their own international keywords.
I could easily be missing something obvious here but perhaps this could be a
first stage solution with an automated version of it running on the ldraw
servers for newer parts.
Tim
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