2017-09-18 11:44 GMT+02:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org>:

> Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
> > I am looking on man pagers - and there are very well readable
> >
> > The rules are simply - when some variables are short - less than 6 chars,
> > then it description and label are on same line. Between items are empty
> > line
>
> I was having a similar idea.  I'm not sure how many lines we would save
> that way, but it seems to me we could use a slightly longer threshold --
> say 8 chars before we cause a newline and wrap.
>
> Maybe we need to come up with guidelines for translators, also.  As
> somebody noted, I've always gone to some trouble to produce translate
> output that preserves the original's constraints; I don't see any reason
> forother translations to behave differently.
>
> (By all means, if we add entry-separating newlines, let's not put them
> as part of the translatable string.)
>

+1

Pavel


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