Stefan Högberg wrote:
I think it might be helpful if some "key terms" would only be translated once in OpenOffice.
Pootle has support for terminology. This does not exactly do what you mean, since it is more a reference. For example: you can put in the terminology the translation of "Navigator" for reference, but this wouldn't be automatically replaced across all strings, since several languages use different forms (cases) for "Open the Navigator..." and "The Navigator is..."
Mathematical function names would very much benefit form being translated only once, so one assure that the exact same term is used everywhere including in the help text.
I believe that in the UI this is already OK. And indeed, this would be a good use case for some "placeholders" mechanism. I agree it's painful (since I've done it too!) to have to go back, while translating the Help, and check how you translate the name of the function you are documenting.
"Direct translation" I think that it would be very helpful if it would be possibly to right click, or combine a click with pushing some control key on the keyboard, on a text in OpenOffice and then get a pop-up
It would. In-place editing sounds quite complex to make, but perhaps there are "good enough" intermediate solutions. For example, assembling a "fake" language where we use the extended help tips (Tools - Options - General) to store the English strings there, or the KeyID seems feasible. You would then hover over the Swedish menu items and see the English original in a tooltip, and this would already help. The next step would be to include a Pootle link on each menu item, and here we would already be hitting some OpenOffice limitations. Going further would require significant development.
Also, I think it is important to have a good search function
If you are used to grep and similar command-line utilities, you can search in the SDF file directly, downloading it from the SVN repository at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/extras/l10n/source/
Suffix '_ADD' in OpenOffice Calc function guide ... I do not understand the choice of _ADD. It does not seem to have anything to do with addition.
Don't know either. This is probably one of those conventions from ancient times that only a few people can explain...
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