On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 19:42, Uwe Fischer <uwe.fisc...@sun.com> wrote: > Hi Ain, > > Ain Vagula wrote: >> >> oh, some things more: >> >> like: <emph>Clipboard</emph> centered >> with whitespaces or whatever, a lot of such strings in options module. >> one more: <emph>Pasting into another </emph> >> <emph>document</emph> :here is the end >> Is this really necessary? >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 20:08, Ain Vagula <avag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> - in last commits shortcuts that previously were metakey+key are >>> changed to metakey-key. why? it is again one PITA for translators. I >>> cannot see any systematical behaviour here because 90% of help uses + >>> and now 10% uses -. >>> - please keep whitespaces (and any other separators) out of the tags. >>> do not write <tag>whatever </tag>, write <tag>whatever</tag>, in >>> different languages word sequence changes and in many cases tag goes >>> to the end of the sentence or before comma. so translator has to >>> remove whitespaces, because whitespace before period or comma is >>> really ugly. >>> >>> > > those changes with unnecessary whitespace were introduced during a short > time period when we were using a new and untested version of our help > authoring environment. That will not happen again. > Unfortunately I'm quite sure that to change such a paragraph containing > unnecessary whitespace will count as a 'changed paragraph' with respect to > the translation processes. This means one moved space character in a 200 > word para will count as 200 new words to translate later. Sure translation > memory will catch this, but it is the overall word count that lets people > decide whether a help CWS will make it into a release or not. > So I'm really not happy with changing these just because it looks better in > some XML text editors. Can you give more opinions or evidence that it really > is a problem? Perhaps discuss or ask on the l10n dev list?
No, I just thought that in future chapters were better to write so that leading and trailing spaces are left out of tags. In already translated ones translators so or so move whitespaces as necessary. > > New inserted shortcuts must be in the format key+key everywhere. Older may > still have the old format key-key and should be updated to the new format. > Hm, looks like these strings came with PresenterScreen help strings and it is really not online help part. Anyways, they just changed in presenter help a lot of plus-signs to minus-signs :( ain --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
