Hi, Guys, recently I working hard on translating the getstart manual. For about two month intense working, the Getstart Chinese translation for FlightGear 2018.4.0 was fully completed !
The Chinese translation covers the whole manual from the very beginning to the end, every installation instruction, every tutorial, and even appendixes. That means every detail are translated. Beside for easier understanding, I added some Translatior's Note for Chinese people.
Note that, I am not a Latex expert, as the result I have to make several "dirty" hack to adopt CJK characters, such as replace the building command from pdflatex to xelatex (for adopting xeCJK package, and more Chinese fonts), even remove some English and other language content. So that, after that it only working in Chinese language, and only pdf version working, I still working on fix these issues. So I need some expert's help to solve these known issues.
I am volunteering to maintain the getstart document Chinese version, to improve and translate this awesome document. If it available add my Chinese translation to official repo would be OK, but I know it may impossible, cause It add several hacking may conflicting existed code, so I suppose creating a standalone branch named "zh" or something like this. Furthermore, we could spirit every language to it own branch, and clean up the source code, it may helpful for English writing and translation.
My translation repo: https://github.com/tonghuix/getstart-zh README file would tell you how to generate it.
Download Direct: https://github.com/tonghuix/getstart-zh/releases (Chinese Only)
And I wrote a Chinese blog to explain how I made it. https://tonghuix.io/2016/01/flightgear-getstart-chinese-translation/
What's new in this 2018.4.0 translation release:
- 2018.4.0, add more new content - Launcher, tutorials and corrected training manual etc.
- Fix a lot of translation errors and format bugs.
- Use Fandol fonts and Noto Sans CJK fonts instead, makes the book more beautiful and print-friendly.
- Add more footnotes that help reader understanding some important knowledge, such us aeronautical knowledge, aerodynamic or flight maneuvers.
- Add TravisCI for build and continues deployment (still failed).