Hi! Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie.di...@gmail.com>, Sat, 15 May 2010 18:09:30 -0400:
(...) > The thing is, there are a bunch of "structural navigation" objects in > Orca which can be "not found". In particular: > > * Anchors > * Blockquotes > * Buttons > * Check boxes > * Chunks/Large Objects > * Combo boxes > * Entries > * Form fields > * Headings (regardless of level) > * Headings at a particular level > * Landmarks > * Lists > * List items > * Radio buttons > * Separators > * Tables > * Table cells > * Unvisited links > * Visited links > > What those items have in common is that they're all things in a document > (most often a web page) that a user attempted to move to using Orca's > structural navigation feature. With that in mind, which is best > practice: > > C_("structural navigation", "not found") > > or: > > C_("anchor", "not found") > C_("blockquote", "not found") > C_("button", "not found") > [...] I can't speak for every language we translate into, but I guess that for Indo-European languages with genders, the subject of a clause is what determinates the form of an adjective or verb (i.e. "not found" in our example). So if the subject in a clause is e.g. feminine, then the contextual adjective should (regardless of whether it's placed in a separated string or not), generally speaking, respect the appropriate gender (and number & case), and for the contextual verb (that often constitutes a predicate in a clause), the subject determinates number (e.g. singular), person (e.g. third person), gender (e.g. feminine) etc. So to answer your question in a simplified way, it always depends on what is the form and meaning of the source strings which are semantically bounded with the single word in question. > And/or is there a certain point at which "best practice" loses out to > "there are already a bazillion strings in Orca. Please stop with the new > strings already." <silly grin> Yes, probably in a case that would otherwise produce bazillion of strings, it'd be better (as in more economical) to go with the single word single-form. > Either way, let us know what you prefer and we'll be happy to do it. It'd be beneficial to hear what other translators, esp. those representing non-Indo-European languages think of this. Thanks, Petr Kovar _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n