Olivier, the question is about (alphabetic) index entries, which are not the same thing as number range fields.
Jean On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 at 01:30 Olivier Hallot <olivier.hal...@libreoffice.org> wrote: > > Em 08/11/2018 04:12, Jean Weber escreveu: > >> Chapter 2 provides guidelines for indexing. On page 11, the guidelines > >> say: "The translators have requested that we do NOT create index entries > >> that surround words or phrases in the text. Instead, we need to create > >> entries that are embedded before or after the words or phrases to be > >> included in the index." > >> > >> What is the rationale for not creating index entries that surround words > >> or phrases? How does this help the translators? > > Olivier or Sophie or someone can provide the technical explanation. My > > understanding is that it interferes with the translation software > > somehow. > > > Oh yes, that's likely me. It was because of field references to *custom* > number range inside the text. For standard number range such as Table, > Illustration, Figure, frame etc... available in Autocaption settings, > translation seems to be handled well and can be carried at the caption > paragraph. When it comes to custom number range field, you can't translate. > > The issue raised when I was translating A. Pitonyak's well known macro > book, where the custom number range field "Listing" was untranslatable > and forcing translation at caption paragraph broke the references to it. > The right approach then is to manually translate the caption and > reference the number range field only by its number, which is invariant. > > Kind regards > > -- > Olivier Hallot > LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator > Comunidade LibreOffice > Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-03:00 > http://tdf.io/joinus > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
