MultiLingual HyperText (MLHT) System
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News & Chronology
2004-08-22 translation batch processing system now running on genba
2004-08-17 database becomes primary source of data about documents
2004-08-12 bkaindl proposes to use 'screen' on genba for collective access to the autoimport system (an important step in making mlht more generally usable within ffii)
2004-07-25 metadata structure documentation started
2003 translation managment at ffii systematised, people send texts in a minimalistic format to mlhtimport at a2e de for automatic batch processing, see http://swpat.ffii.org/group/langtxt/
1997-2000 phm creates the system and initial documentation at http://mlht.ffii.org/. Purpose is to facilitate managment of large multilingual bodies of text.
As of 2004-09-11, the situation, in a nutshell, is as follows
- phm's simple reference program /var/www/adm/bin/mlhtimport works perfectly and does everything that is needed to makevmlht batch importing work. It writes the texts into a queue, found in
- /var/spool/langtxt/*.txt /var/spool/langtxt/LASTMAIL
- gilles has a richer perl script, mlhtimport2, which should do the same things plus, thanks to extensive use of CPAN packages, some extra functionality, such as
- handling all kinds of MIME multipart mail
- checking %(xx:....) expressions
However phm is not sure whether this script produces the same output as the simple reference program.
Note: the CPAN packages are mostly, except for one or two exceptions available as debian perl packages and installed this way.
- Gilles's script runs at mlhtimport2 att ffii org and could run at any other alias that gilles might prefer, except, for the time being, mlhtimport. After the mlhtimport2 script has been verified as workable, gilles can also use the mlhtimport alias.
For now, the wiki pages which refer to mlhtimport should mention mlhtimport2 att ffii org as a beta testing address which should be used and if there is an error which is fixed by using mlhtimport instead of mlhtimport2, a notice should be added here with the name of the reporter and if possible a link or path to the script which triggers the error.