Thanks for the suggestions. Done.
On 8/19/2016 6:49 PM, scootergrisen wrote: > Some suggestions to improve the source language (english) translation: > > For this string: > #: src/HelpText.cpp:220 > msgid "" > "You do not appear to have the 'help' folder installed.<br> Please <a" > "href=\"*URL*\">view the content online</a> or <a" > "href=\"http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/unzipping_the_manual.html\";>" > "download the current Manual</a>.<br><br>To always view the Manual online," > "change \"Location of Manual\" in<br> Interface Preferences to \"From" > "Internet\"." > > I suggest these changes: > "You do not appear to have the 'help' folder installed." > > > "The manual does not appear to be installed." > > "view the content online" > > > "view the manual online" > > "download the current Manual" > > > "download the Manual" Nice. Shorter and clearer (in my opinion). > > --- > > For this string: > "Plug-ins %d to %d" > > Maybe there should not be a "s"?: > "Plug-in %d to %d" > > So i becomes "Plug-in 1 to 15". > I'm not sure if that is correct in english. Both are correct in English. I think the difference is that Plug-ins 7 to 9 emphasises the ensemble of them, whereas Plug-in 7 to 9 emphasises their individuality. As the user is about to pick one of them from a menu, I the individuality is slightly better. > --- > > For the string: > "Open Recent" > Used in Mac OS X, maybe we could add a link so translators can see what > the string is translated to in theyr language if such a website exists. > I don't know if apple offers that. Didn't do anything about this as I didn't know where to point translators. > There are these two strings: > #: src/effects/ChangeSpeed.cpp:59 > msgid "n/a" > > #: src/effects/ladspa/LadspaEffect.cpp:634 src/effects/lv2/LV2Effect.cpp:385 > #: src/effects/lv2/LV2Effect.cpp:398 > msgid "N/A" > > I suggest: > Join them to one string decide if should use big or small letters. All changed to n/a now, since I think mostly where they appear in the user interface the user should just ignore the n/a entries rather than needing to pay attention to the N/A status. Thanks for helping us improve Audacity. --James. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Audacity-translation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-translation
