Hei Landon, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> I wonder if phrases for translation should use title case instead of > lower case if they do not have punctuation. For example, instead of > the string "That did not work" I think we might want to use "That Did > Not Work" or "That did not work." I'm not sure about this and I didn't > want to make a bunch of changes until I talked to you. If you prefer > the way we are doing it now I won't mess with it so we can stay > consistent. mhm.. good question.. what is proper english. In some lagunage like german there is not such a questions since subjects are always in uppercase letters, while nouns are always lower case - thus grammar prohibits doing it as you want. So for english - the english speaking people should decide that. > > So far I've only found 3 other changes. > > I think "NewProjectPlugIn" should be "New Task PlugIn". > > I think "A window with an associated project frame must be active" > should be "A window with an associated task window should be active." > Maybe your remember very darkly that we decided to switch from "Task" to "Project" like 1.5 years ago. Since project is rather common than task - e.g. nearly also languages have the word Project, while Task would at least in german sound a bit strange. > I think "A window with a layer-view panel must be active" should be "A > window with a Layer View should be active." > > I'm a little confused on the first to. Does OpenJUMP have projects or > tasks? I don't think our usage of this term is consistent. I think we > have a "project properties" file but in the JUMP User Guide they talk > about "Tasks". Maybe we need to decide which one we will use. Unless > I'm all messed up. Maybe a project can contain multiple tasks? > > I think the last change needs to be made because the user guide refers > to the LayerViewPanel as a Layer View. I think LayerViewPanel is the > class name and this looks like a message for users. yup.. i agree with you. refering to a class is not that nice ;) > > It is going to take me a lot longer to get through this file than I > thought. I'll keep working on it over the next couple of days. ok.. it took me also 2-3 hours to update only german for the new tools since august stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
