On 12/28/2012 05:43 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> >> To: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> >> Cc: "[email protected] list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 5:00 PM >> Subject: Re: [PD] more fun with translations >> >> On 12/28/2012 04:22 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> >>>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> >>>> To: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: "[email protected] list" <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 2:39 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [PD] more fun with translations >>>> >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> No, the idea would be there would be an editor for them, so that the >> strings >>>> can be extracted and put up on transifex, and then downloaded and >> inserted >>>> into a patch file. That would be the method for bulk translation. >>> >>> Doesn't Transifex make Pd-Extended dependent and to some extent locked >> in >>> to a commercial web service? >> >> Transifex is all free software, so someone could run their own transifex >> instance if they wanted to. Transifex is based on the standard GNU gettext >> tools, so its easy to stop using it at anytime, and just use the normal .po >> translation tools like poedit. It is a commercial service, but I have no >> problem with commerce. Since it is not proprietary service, I see it as a >> great free software tool to support our free software work. >> > > Oh ok, I seem to have misunderstood what it was. > >>> BTW-- matju's GF helpsystem _does_ adjust vertical space as needed. :) >> >> I think that automated text layout won't work well unless the layout engine >> can also move the patch stuff around. > > I don't understand what this means. The GF abstractions get their x,y > coordinates > adjusted as needed to provide enough vertical space for everything. > > -Jonathan
I meant that either the help patch would need to be laid out so that the auto-layout would not make the text overlap the example patch part, or the auto-layout would have to be aware of the patch part. Another solution would be to have a text/comment field that saves carriage returns and paragraph breaks. Then a whole column of text could be in a single object, and then there would just need to be room at the bottom to accomodate different lengths of texts, depending on the language. .hc _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
