On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 17:51 -0400, Ourada, Paul wrote: > Well, heck. Sorry for the premature send and the resulting noise. I > continue my list of feature requests below. > > > > - abbreviation support: in embedded systems we tend to have > fixed text fields, > > so translators often have to come up with > abbreviations in various languages.
I assume what you really mean is that the system should limit the entry to N characters? We don't do that, its never emerged as a requirement in the non-embedded world, so its never been coded. > - about those fixed fields: font and screen support: it would > be really really nice to be able to hand a > > list of words/phrases to be xlated along with a > tool which would render those xlations > > into a bitmap of the target screen/popup/window > in a pre-determined font. Its the... tool which would... that is missing here. Since the translations are platform agnostic you would need a tool for each toolkit that could render the results. > - more about abbreviation support: the abbreviations would be > associated with a particular word or phrase. Well the terminology lists that we currently support can easily be used for that. > - String usage: it would be useful to have a way to keep track > of where a particular word or phrase was used. > For instance, if a particular phrase was used in > more than one place on a screen or within a > particular software project, that would be very > useful information to know. We don't do that now. > - Project association: It would be very useful to go through > the xlation database and pull or tag various words or > phrases to associate with a particular > software project: Generator project uses subset A while > Software download project uses subset B. Since we simply use XLIFF or PO files you are free to tag and store any association. > - It would be very useful to extract the words and phrases in a > way that different embedded GUIs (QNX, PEG, etc) > could easily import them. Now I'm afraid you are the expert :) > Am I asking for the moon? Has this already been done? If not, do these > things look like something that could be added onto Pootle as some sort > of plugin? It might not be the moon it might simply be that we don't fully understand how these requests fit in with an embedded device; which are requirements and which are nice to haves. This is FOSS so we are happy to discuss and examine patches that would do any of the above. So are not our domain, but we'd be able to guide you as to where and how to integrate them. -- Dwayne Bailey Translate.org.za +27-12-460-1095 (w) +27-83-443-7114 (cell) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
