On 21.12.2013 23:34, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013, at 23:12, bug-grub-ow...@gnu.org wrote: >> You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has >> been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are >> being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at >> bug-grub-ow...@gnu.org. > > Ehm, msgid bugs are supposed to be reported to this list, > so please let the post pass. > Hello, currently bug-grub is subscriber-only list. I'll think of how to change this. Probably it will be changed to moderated or the mail for msgid bugs will be changed to another ML (the one I currently redirecting you to).
> Subject:
> please attempt to minimize string changes
> From:
> Benno Schulenberg <bensb...@justemail.net>
> Date:
> Sat, 21 Dec 2013 23:12:38 +0100
> To:
> bug-g...@gnu.org
>
>
> Hello developers,
>
> While updating the Dutch translations of grub's messages, I notice that
> some strings have changed in unnecessary ways. The change that makes
> me write this mail is the one in util/grub-mkrescue.c, lines 215-217.
> Those three lines were gettextized separately, which was very well,
> because they are separate paragrahs. Now they are a single string,
> which is not only unwieldy, and ungraspable in one view, but also every
> translator has to concatenate her three previous separate translations
> into a single one. Unneeded work. Please gettextize those paragraphs
> again separately, so the translations need to be tweaked only slightly.
>
grub-mkrescue was rewritten in C and current segmentation is imposed by
argp. I don't know if there is a way to put old strings there.
Perhaps someone more familiar with srgp could help?
> In general, when extending a text, please consider whether the addition
> can be seen as an independent sentence. If so, then please gettextize
> it separately.
>
> By the way, in grub-core/commands/terminal.c, couldn't
> "[--append|--remove] [TERMINAL1] [TERMINAL2] ..."
> simply be:
> "[--append|--remove] [TERMINAL...]"?
>
I find second less clear since it's more difficult to guess that the
"..." stands for ("[TERMINAL3]",...)
When proofreading Ukrainian and French translations we've found a number
of unclear msgids. I'll make beta2 tomorrow to reflect those changes.
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