On 15 October 2013 21:50, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > I have on experimental basis made KeyID == po id + filename + module, and build a version that contains da, es, en-US and KeyId. With that I can switch relative fast between e.g. Da and KeyId. Doing it like that is not perfect (e.g. tooltip would be a lot better), but the beauty is that its something we can do without developing new features. > > 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/<http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/extras/l10n/source/> > May I suggest to use the .po file instead, the SDF files will hopefully not survive new years eve. rgds jan I. > > 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... > > Regards, > Andrea. > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > l10n-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > [email protected].**org<[email protected]> > >
