I opened a ticket, looking forward to your input and ideas.
http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5849
On 10/31/07, Dmitri Fedortchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Now that I re-read your definition, there is one difference between your
> suggestion and my patch.
> My patch just uses the first line to define the amount of whitespace to
> strip, while you suggest we use the shortest indentation in the whole block.
>
>
> Which is better?
>
> //D
>
> On 10/29/07, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 21:46 +0000, Dmitri Fedortchenko wrote:
> > > That's a great idea! I'll see if I can squeeze out a patch for this,
> > > since I feel that I want to be able to indent blocktrans without
> > > having the extra spaces in the po files (I realize one can remove the
> > > extra spaces manually in the po files, but I like consistent
> > > autogeneration hehe).
> > >
> > > In other words, whitespace equal to the amount of the indentation of
> > > first line will be removed, as well as leading and trailing whitespace
> > > and line breaks.
> > > One question that springs to mind: If the first line is on the same
> > > line as the {% blocktrans %}tag itself (i.e. it has no indentation),
> > > should we strip the subsequent lines based on the indentation of the
> > > second line, or assume that the user wants to keep the text as is?
> >
> > Well, firstly, I'd rather you solved the two problems in a slightly
> > reverse order: first allow linebreaks inside blocktrans, then let's
> > worry about stripping whitespace. But it's up to you.
> >
> > My ideal scenario would be that if we have a block of text that needs to
> > be translated, strip a constant amount of whitespace from the front of
> > each line. This amount will be the minimum amount of leading whitespace
> > on any of the lines in that block. So, at the end, one line (at least)
> > will always be flush against the left margin and all other lines will be
> > indented relative to that line as they were in the source text.
> >
> > (My reason for writing that alternative formulation is because I don't
> > really understand what you were asking about being on the same level as
> > the blocktrans tag. I'm not sure why the tag is relevant here.)
> >
> > Come up with a patch that does whatever you like and we can go from
> > there. I think we're thinking along similar lines, so it will be easy
> > enough to tweak once we have some concrete code to throw darts at.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Malcolm
> >
> > --
> > Remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
> > http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/
> >
> >
> > > >
> >
>
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