Translating an individual article from English is straightforward.

When a language already exists on the site, it’s very easy to contribute by translating individual articles. Just follow this procedure.

Procedure

To create a new translated page from an existing English page:

  1. Copy the file from pages/en/lb2 (or lb3 if it’s for LoopBack version 3.0) to the directory for your language; for example if you were translating file pages/en/lb2/Foo.html to French, copy it to pages/fr/lb2/Foo.html
  2. Edit the front matter (see example below) and make the following changes:
    • Change layout from page to translation
    • Change sidebar from lb2_sidebar to xx_lb2_sidebar where xx is the ISO code for your language.
    • Change permalink from /doc/en/lb2/Foo.html to /doc/xx/lb2/Foo.html.
    • Add lang attribute with the appropriate value.
  3. Start translating the content!
  4. Make sure your navigation sidebar _data/sidebars/xx_lb_sidebar.yml contains a link to your article somewhere (ideally in a logical location).
  5. Add the translated: true property for the article in the sidebar file.

Front matter example

When you’re done, the page front matter should look like this:

---
title: "<<Translate the article's title from English>>"
layout: translation
trans_complete: false
sidebar: xx_lb2_sidebar
lang: ja
tags:
permalink: /doc/xx/lb2/Foo.html
summary: <<Translate or add a summary in the target language>>
---

In the example above, xx is the ISO language code for your language (for example fr for French, and so on).

The trans_complete property indicates whether the page has been fully translated. If there is any untranslated (English) content remaining on the page, set this property to false to display a notification to that effect; otherwise, omit the property.

Tags: contributing