Patrick Zanon wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using the great po4a package and I would like to propose a little change > in the Xhtml package. > > The <span> tag should not be an inline tag since it is used to break the line > into smaller pieces which should have an independent treatment, especially > for translations. Here is an example: > > <span>Last update:</span> <span>September 10, 2009</span> <span>by pkz</span> > > In this line of xhtml the only translation that should be updated each time > the page is changed is the date (the second span object), while the first and > the last piece should not be changed. > > At present, if the page is changed, the whole line with the three span objects > should be re-translated completely.
Hello Patrick, I disagree, when a sentence is cut into smaller pieces, it is almost always a bad idea to translate pieces separately. Maybe in some languages you will have a different order, or "Last update" may change depending on the gender of who made that change, etc. These pieces may be separate lexical units in English, but you cannot be sure that they are also independent in any language, thus it is better to translate the full sentence. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
