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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: one more change to poxml
From:       "Erik K. Pedersen" <epedersen () stny ! rr ! com>
Date:       2001-03-30 11:06:25
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But it is my impression the system actually works now. I think this is an 
incredible improvement. When there was a change in ksame recently it showed 
up as two fuzzies and two new strings, and in the old system, I might not 
have discovered it at all, unless I follow the mailing lists really 
carefully. Our humble thanks to Stephan.

Erik

Onsdag 28 Marts 2001 10:43 skrev Stephan Kulow:
> Hi!
>
> I added support for "<!-- TRANS:" blocks to poxml. These
> belong in the english document and create an extra entry
> in the .pot file to be translated.
> These can be used to add paragraphs that are only specific
> to translations. Two standard ones are ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS
> and CREDIT_FOR_TRANSLATORS.
>
> One limitation is that you can't add such comments everywhere
> but only outside of blocks that would be translated anyway.
> So you can do things like
> <authorgroup>
> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
> </authorgroup>
>
> but not
> <para>
> This is for english <!-- TRANS:AND_THE_LANGUAGE -->
> </para>
> or
> <simplelist>
> <entry>Me</entry>
> <!-- TRANS:GUI_TRANSLATOR -->
> </simplelist>
>
> Such things you better do with some markup magic in the translation.
> For example you can translate
> msgid "Me"
> msgstr "Me</entry><entry>The Great Translator"
>
> So if you're porting existing documentation and find paragraphs that
> are for (your) translation only, you should send a patch to the english
> translation team
>
> Greetings, Stephan

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