Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> POV is being developed so rapidly (especially in the unofficial field)
> that by the time a book has been collected, written, proofed, printed,
> advertised and sold, it will have become outdated. An electronic
> version of it, either a web site or an Acrobat (or PostScript)
> document would be better as it will allow for easier updates. Ideas of
> such sites hit people now and again but the Ultimate POV Tutorial Site
> is still a dream. Maybe you can stir the events that will make it
> become true :)

There is a French POV-Ray Documentation Project, that intends to
write from scratch a documentation to POV-Ray (including MegaPOV) instead
of translating the official one (this has already been done).

The idea is that the process of translation is painful (because, you
know, there are always those sentences that don't easily cross the
language barrier) and restricts the translator to what the original
author has written (which is, as Peter reminded us, necessarily
outdated -- even if only slightly).

The POV-Ray documentation translations are good, but Fabien Mosen (and
others) felt it would be better to have a new documentation, aimed at really
using POV-Ray, more than being a reference document.

The authors estimate 60% of the work is done, and it can be accessed
here (and for those who quickly skimmed through this text, yes, it is
in French):

	http://users.skynet.be/bs936509/povfr/index.htm


								Adrien

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