Hi, In translation of the Help (and also the Tip-od-the-day strings) one often needs to look up translation of UI strings. There are two options how to do that: open LO and find the string there, and to search for the string directly in Weblate. Both are cumbersome.
There seems to be a third option. The LO manuals are translated using OmegaT. There, one can upload UI translation to its vocabulary and OmegaT then highlights matches directly in the translated text - one can choose the right one by mouse click. This is very efficient and it ensures that the translations are correct. I think that something similar can be achieved also in Weblate. I have imported 16000 string pairs in vocabulary (there was no problem with that) and when translating a string, I get a list of suggestions I can choose from. For example, when translating the string /To start temporarily with a fresh user profile, or to restore a non-working %PRODUCTNAME, use////Help > Restart in Safe Mode/. I can find there translation of /Restart in Safe Mode/. I can transfer its translation to the editor by a mouse click. The problem here is that the algorithm behind vocabulary is very simple - it finds occurrences of each word in the translated string in all vocabulary entries. Thus for the string above I get 2000+ suggestions. I can find the right translation by searching in the browser for the source string. This is not optimal, but still better then the two possibilities mentioned above. I thing that the search algorithm can be modified easily so that it returns only useful matches - I would like to create an issue regarding that in Weblate's github. If one uses just a standard vocabulary (a list of translation of single words), no change would be visible. What do you think about this option? Do you also find it useful? Cheers Milos -- email & jabber: sramek.mi...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
