Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Alexandru Stanoi wrote:
>
>
>> Derick Rethans wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Alexandru Stanoi wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I think this syntax would be easier to see for a designer, as
>>>> he/she does not need to write text inside the template code, but
>>>> inside a block like html.
>>>>
>>> Perhaps, however, the "vars" part wouldn't be there for most strings, and
>>> perhaps we can do something with the "context" as well, such as setting it
>>> for the whole template. In case we both move them out, we'd end up having
>>> just:
>>>
>>> {_ "Hello Derick"}
>>>
>>> which is quite a bit easier already than:
>>>
>>> {_ "Hello #%nr (%nr2)" context "test" vars nr = $nr + 8, nr2 = 98}
>>>
>> How about other situations where blocks would be nicer?
>>
>> 1. quotes in string need to be escaped:
>> {_ "Hello Michael \"Air\" Jordan!"}
>>
>> compared to:
>> {_}
>> Hello Michael "Air" Jordan!
>> {/_}
>>
>> 2. html code in string:
>> {_ "Hello <ul><li>derick</li><li>alex</li><li>ray</li></ul>"}
>>
>> compared to:
>> {_}
>> Hello
>> <ul>
>> <li>derick</li>
>> <li>alex</li>
>> <li>ray</li>
>> </ul>
>> {/_}
>>
>
> There is an issue with this example (and blocks vs. functions). In order
> for the translation component to match the translation with the given
> string, it needs to be *exactly* the same - inclusive whitespace.
>
> In both your examples, the original string is not the same. Also, the
> whole idea of templates is not to put HTML in code ;-)
>
But Alex gave good point, here is an example from eZ Publish template:
{"There are two options:<br>- Direct delivery through transfer agent
(must be available on the server).<br>- Indirect delivery using an SMTP
relay server."|i18n("design/standard/setup/init")}
In new syntax that could look like:
{translate context "test"}
There are two options:
- Direct delivery through transfer agent (must be available on the server).
- Indirect delivery using an SMTP relay server.
{/translate}
As "block" it is easier to keep formatting e.g in e-mail templates and
read that code.
Even if we remove those <br> tags from string and we need line break we
will have something like:
{"There are two options:
- Direct delivery through transfer agent (must be available on the server).
- Indirect delivery using an SMTP relay
server."|i18n("design/standard/setup/init")}
With new {tr it will look like:
{tr "There are two options:
- Direct delivery through transfer agent (must be available on the server).
- Indirect delivery using an SMTP relay server." context "test"}
Łukasz
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