On Tuesday 03 September 2002 19:38, Pam R wrote: > You mean where, for example, I have put > <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click ... > rather than > &LMB; click ... ? > > It has been done deliberately, because &LMB; would get expanded to > <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> mouse button click ... > which IMHO is a rather ponderous way of expressing things in en_US, > especially when it occurs many many times in the text. > > I seem to remember that this point was raised soon after the &LMB; etc. > entities were introduced, and some translators also raised potentiol > problems with the use of &LMB; and its friends. > > But, I wasn't aware that doing this leads to markup problems and more > complicated translation, perhaps you could explain this more fully so that > we can arrive at an optimum solution.
I agree with you totally on this, Pam. I think maybe all docs need to be reviewed in this case, for the appropriate use of these entities. Regards, Malcolm -- KDE Proof Reading Team KDE GB English Translation Team
