There are some issues raised both about unneccesary tags and a also about l10n tools:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=40920 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=43810 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=47563 Those are only issues that I have CC-d, maybe there are more. Should be interesting to view full list. ;) ain On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:50, Andras Timar<ti...@fsf.hu> wrote: > 2009.09.07. 15:14 keltezéssel, Olivier Hallot írta: >> >> 3) Tons of.... mostly unit measures changes only. A no-brainer task to >> copy/paste, but nevertheless very time consuming >> > I think all of us would agree, that no-brainer tasks should not be done by > human beings. Although help writers made a mistake here, in fact it is a > problem with your l10n tools. Tools should handle tag changes and whitespace > changes in a smarter way. > > With PO files there is little chance to improve things, but at least the > #| msgid previous-untranslated-string > comment could be used. Good PO editors can make a diff, and translators do > not have to read and interpret the whole segment. > > With XLIFF there are more possibilities. Tags and variables can be marked up > as "placeables" which means that the editor can make a difference between > them and normal text. Currently tags and variables are not marked up in OOo > XLIFF files. I wonder why. > > With a little effort put into l10n tool development OOo translation > experience would improve dramatically. I'm using a proprietary tool. The > money I spent on it have been re-gained 10 times, because I can save a lot > of time. I know it is not an option for everybody. I know that many of you > haven't seen better tools than the mainstream open source tools (Translate > Toolkit, Pootle, POEdit, Lokalize, KBabel, etc.). I'm afraid that long time > contributors will quit due to frustration and new contributors will not > come. Noboby likes brainless copy-pasting. > > Best regards, > Andras > hu l10n > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@l10n.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@l10n.openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@l10n.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@l10n.openoffice.org
