from man 3 printf:
Many countries use the day-month-year order. Hence, an
internationalized version must be able to print the argu
ments in an order specified by the format:
#include <stdio.h>
fprintf(stdout, format,
weekday, month, day, hour, min);
where format depends on locale, and may permute the argu
ments. With the value
"%1$s, %3$d. %2$s, %4$d:%5$.2d\n"
one might obtain `Sonntag, 3. Juli, 10:02'.
To be able to do things like this we need to have a printf style of
declaring user/i18n/l10n strings
"LyX failed to save file %1$s in %2$s dir."
can be altered in po files to f.ex:
"Dir %2$s is not open for writing for file %1$s"
I am sure this can be useful.
Lgb
