Package: po4a Version: 0.72-1 Severity: wishlist groff 1.23 introduces the macro .MR for references like "groff(1)". Using --option translate_joined or --option untranslated this macro can be considered for translation.
However, this is not very good. Consider the following examples
from groff(1):
Run eqn(1) preprocessor.
.
.TP
.B \-e
Run
.MR \%eqn 1
preprocessor.
.
This is now 3 paragraphs in the po file:
#. type: Plain text
msgid "Run"
msgstr ""
#. type: MR
#, no-wrap
msgid "\\%eqn 1"
msgstr ""
#. type: Plain text
msgid "preprocessor."
msgstr ""
As you can see, po strings may become very short. Some
paragraphs are now a few po strings in the file, making it clumsy to
translate, especially if the "MR" part is the last in the english
sentence, but should be somewhere else in the translated sentence.
Or:
A
.MR man 1
librarian program \" such as man-db, since 2001
may use this macro file to delegate loading of the correct macro
…
which becomes
#. type: Plain text
msgid "A"
msgstr ""
#. type: MR
#, no-wrap
msgid "man 1"
msgstr ""
#. such as man-db, since 2001
msgid ""
"librarian program may use this macro file to delegate loading of the correct "
"macro package; it is thus unnecessary for I<man> itself to scan the contents "
"of a document to decide the issue."
msgstr ""
Here, you have the problem that "A" can be translated as "Ein", "Eine" oder
"Einer" in German, so if this occurs multiple times, you might not be able to
correctly translate it. Fortunately, current groff(1) uses this one
only once.
Maybe you can implement it like B<> and I<>, e.g. using R<> for
"reference" or simmilar?
groff(1) has some fallback code for older groffs, maybe you can use
this as starting point for implementation?
.\" Define fallback for groff 1.23's MR macro if the system lacks it.
.nr do-fallback 0
.if !\n(.f .nr do-fallback 1 \" mandoc
.if \n(.g .if !d MR .nr do-fallback 1 \" older groff
.if !\n(.g .nr do-fallback 1 \" non-groff *roff
.if \n[do-fallback] \{\
. de MR
. ie \\n(.$=1 \
. I \%\\$1
. el \
. IR \%\\$1 (\\$2)\\$3
. .
.\}
.rr do-fallback
Thank you very much for considering.
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Versions of packages po4a depends on:
ii gettext 0.21-14+b1
ii libpod-parser-perl 1.67-1
ii libsgmls-perl 1.03ii-38
ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.29-2
ii libyaml-tiny-perl 1.74-1
ii opensp 1.5.2-15
ii perl 5.38.2-5
Versions of packages po4a recommends:
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-7
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b3
ii libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-10
ii libunicode-linebreak-perl 0.0.20190101-1+b7
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