I got it: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch- controlfields.html#s-f-Description
According to this, lines that begin with a space are expected to be part of a paragraph, and lines starting with two spaces are expected to be displayed verbatim - intltool-extract works consistently with this, so after changing a file to start description strings streching to multiple lines with two spaces, line breaks are preserved. Too bad, that translation still does not work: http://people.ubuntu.com/~kelemeng/pix/checkbox.png -- Several strings appear in English although translated https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/514401 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
