Übersetzungsrichtlinien¶

Translation in Transifex¶

In order to translate QGIS with Transifex, you first need to join the project. Once you got a team, click on the corresponding project and your language. You get a list of all translatable .po files. Click on the docs_user-manual_plugins_plugins-heatmap to select the heatmap plugin file and choose Translate in the prompted dialog. Note that you can also choose to download the file and translate it with tools like Qt Linguist. The next page lists all the sentences in the file. All you need to do is select the text and translate following the guidelines.

For further information on the use of Transifex Web Editor, see http://docs.transifex.com/tutorials/txeditor/.

Übersetzen in Qt Linguist¶

With Qt Linguist, you need to manually grab the .po file. When you open the file in Qt Linguist for the first time you will see the following dialog:

Select language for translation in linguist menu

The Target language should be filled correctly. The Source language can be left as is with language POSIX and Country/Region on Any Country.

When you press the [OK] button Qt Linguist is filled with sentences and you can start translating, see Figure_translation_menu.

Translate using the linguist menu

Im Menü sehen Sie die folgenden Schaltflächen, die bequem sind zu nutzen.

• The Translation Done Next button, is the most important button. If the item needs translation, you enter a translation in the text field, then hit this button. If the item does not need translation just leave the text field for translation empty and also hit this button which indicates the item is done and you continue with the next item.
• The Goto Previous button, can be used to go to the previous translation item.
• The Goto Next button, can be used to go to the next translation item.
• The Next Todo button, jumps to the first translation item that still needs a translation. Handy when the original document has changed and only several new/changed sentences need to be translated.
• The Previous Todo button, searches backward and jumps to the first translation item it finds that still needs a translation.

Übersetze ein Handbuch¶

Nun starten wir die Übersetzung von der plugin_heatmap Anleitung!

Translating most of the sentences should be straightforward. During this translation session I will point out which parts (rst statements) need special translation.

Below we see an interesting sentence to translate:

The |heatmap| :sup:`Heatmap` plugin allows to create a heatmap from a
point vector map. A heatmap is a raster map showing the density or
magnitude of point related information. From the result "hotspots" can
easily be identified.

Dieser Satz enthält zwei rst Aussagen:

1. |heatmap| words between | are replacements and these should never be translated! This will be replaced by the heatmap plugin icon!
2. :sup:`Heatmap`, the :sup: statement is a superposition statement and prints the following text a bit higher. This is used to show the popup texts that appear when you hover above the toolbar item and this may be different when it is actually translated in the QGIS application. In the Dutch case it is not!

All other plain text in this sentence can be translated!

The next translation item contains the :ref: statement that is commonly used to refer to another section somewhere in the manual! The text following a :ref: statement should never be changed because it is a unique identifier!

First this core plugin needs to be activated using the Plugin Manager
(see Section :ref:`load_core_plugin`). After activation the heatmap icon
|heatmap| can be found in the Raster Toolbar.

In this case load_core_plugin is a unique reference identifier placed before an rst item that has a caption. The ref statement will be replaced with the text of the header and turned into a hyperlink. When the header this reference is refering to is translated, all references to this header will be automatically translated as well.

The next item contains the rst-tag :menuselection: followed by text actually displayed in a menu in QGIS application, this may be translated in the application and therefore should be changed when this is the case.

Select from menu :menuselection:`View --> Toolbars --> Raster` to activate
the Raster Toolbar when it is not yet activated.

In above item “View –>” is actually translated to “Beeld –>” because this is the translation used in the Dutch localized QGIS application.

A bit further we meet the following tricky translation item:

The |heatmap| :sup:`Heatmap` tool button starts the Dialog of the Heatmap
plugin (see figure_heatmap_settings_).

It holds a reference to a figure figure_heatmap_settings_, and like a reference to section this reference should not be changed!! The reference definition itself from the rst-document is not included in the .po file and can therefore not be changed. This means the reference to figures can not be translated. When HTML is created you will see figure_heatmap_settings. When a PDF document is created figure_heatmap_settings_ is replaced with a figure number.

The next translation item with rst attributes is the following item:

**Input Point dialog**: Provides a selection of loaded point vector maps.

Do not remove the stars in above line. It will print the text it holds in bold. The text itself is often text included in the dialog itself and may well be translated in the application.

The following translation item contains the :guilabel: rst tag.

When the |checkbox| :guilabel:`Advanced` checkbox is checked it will
give access to additional advanced options.

The text Advanced of the guilabel tag may well be translated in the QGIS application and probably needs to be changed!

The following translation item contains ``airports``. The quotes are used to give the text another text font. In this case it is a literal value and does not need translation.

For the following example, we will use the ``airports`` vector point
layer from the QGIS sample dataset (see :ref:`label_sampledata`).
Another excellent QGIS tutorial on making heatmaps can be found on
`http://qgis.spatialthoughts.com
<http://qgis.spatialthoughts.com/2012/07/tutorial-making-heatmaps-using-qgis-and.html>`_.

This item also includes a hyperlink with an url and an external presentation. The url should of course be left intact, you are allowed to change the external text http://qgis.spatialthoughts.com which is visible by the reader. Never remove the underscore at the end of the hyperlink which forms an essential part of it!!

Summary Rules for translation¶

1. Do not change text between two | characters like |bronze|, |checkbox|, |labels|, |selectString|, |addLayer| ... These are special tags used to replace images
2. Do not change references that start with the tag :ref: or :file:
3. Do not change references that end with an underscore like figure_labels_1_
4. Do not change the url in hyperlinks, but you may change the external description. Leave the underscore at the end of the hyperlink, without additional spacing (>`_)
5. Change the text inside quotes following :index:, :sup:, :guilabel: and :menuselection: tags. Check if/how it is translated in the QGIS Application. Do not change the tag itself.
6. Text between double stars and double quotes often indicate values or fieldnames, sometimes they need translation sometimes not.
7. Be aware to use exactly the same (number of) special characters of the source text such as `, ``, *, **, ::. These contribute to the cosmetics of the information provided
8. Do not begin nor end the text hold by special characters or tags with a space
9. Do not end the translated strings with a new paragraph, otherwise the text will not be translated during the html generation.

Stick to above presented rules and the translated document will look fine!

For any question, please contact the QGIS Community Team or the QGIS Translation Team.