Here's a quick video about making ghost patches and installing Translation Kit. The patches mentioned are
Translation Kit patch (30327) and
Bret goodies patch (30326).
Here's a run-through of Translation Kit:
The basic ideas are:
Defining translators:
- "Claim (you) translates with ..." gives you a translate function: "Claim (translator) translates using function (f)."
- Containers inherit all such claims of their contained, and thus get a translate function that does it all.
Translating pages:
- "Wish (p) is translated by (you)." makes you one of the translators for page (p).
- A page's active text gets translated by all such translators, in priority order.
- This means that the text on a page can say anything at all, as long as you provide translators that ultimately bring it down to plain Lua.
- "Wish (p) is not translated by the default translator." if you really want to get wild.
- Every page gets a claim "Claim (p) is translated using function (f)." which is the overall translate function for that page (for syntax-highlighting etc)
Default translator:
- is defined just like any other translator, but Make default translator (30300) translates it into plain Lua and patches it onto the Default translator boot page.
- The pieces of the default translator are currently Default macros (30281) and Default preprocessors (30279), which are not in the ghost pages, because they're meant to be on a posterboard or something.
Visibility:
- Wish (p) displays translations by (translator).
- Wish editors show translations by (translator).