Hello Audacity translators!
Audacity is in release 2.3.0 development, which will likely last four
months, and the lately updated audacity.pot is not final. But it would be
helpful to the team's testing to get at least one language up-to-date with
that soon.
Here it is: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/audacity/audacity/master/
locale/audacity.pot
We have done something new, which we need to test: we are
internationalizing the parts of Audacity written in Lisp, not C++. These
are the effects, generators, and analyzers that appear below the separator
lines in the menus. They have long been in Audacity but un-translated.
There are many of these and many related strings to translate now.
So we would like to test this new Lisp translation system as soon as we can
with at least one fully updated .po file.
You are familiar with strings marked as "c-format", with % slots that you
must preserve in the translation. Now we also have "lisp-format" strings
with ~ slots.
In case you are unfamiliar: ~a can be substituted by anything (string or
number -- Lisp can check the run-time value types of format arguments, as C
cannot).
No other ~ directives are substitution slots. ~~ just becomes one ~
character. ~% becomes a new-line. ~ followed by end-of-line in the Lisp
source code becomes ~\n in the audacity.pot. This tells Lisp to omit the
newline and following blank spaces, just to make it possible to break long
format strings in the program in a readable way.
(This is only a subset of the complete format directives of Common Lisp.
It is all that our tiny Lisp implements. You don't need to learn all the
complications of common Lisp's format function.)
So look for ~ directives in lisp-format strings, and make corresponding
ones in translation, knowing that only ~a is a blank to be filled in.
Finally, I mention that a few strings include some HTML markup like
and <b> which you should preserve. I tried to avoid markup in translatable
strings, but sometimes there is the conflicting and more important
requirement that you should translate long phrases in context, not isolated
words. So sometimes you see marked-up words in their larger context.
Thanks, and please send me a reply directly when you complete the updates.
I will watch Transifex, or take a GitHub Pull request, or take a file that
you attach to email -- whichever method you prefer.
Paul Licameli
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