Stop creating huge translation units in applications

Sat Nov 4 16:55:11 GMT 2023

Just an idea, maybe the text that goes into the overall html document could be separated into little translatable chunks and the larger html (tooltip?) that it gets combined into could be concatenated together using code since that part doesn’t need to be translated?

> On Nov 4, 2023, at 10:45 AM, Wolfgang Reissenberger <sterne-jaeger at openfuture.de> wrote:
> 
> That is my recent change adding more placeholders. Any ideas how to do it better?
> 
>> Am 04.11.2023 um 14:04 schrieb Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com>:
>> 
>> FYI
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Łukasz Wojniłowicz <lukasz.wojnilowicz at gmail.com <mailto:lukasz.wojnilowicz at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Sat, Nov 4, 2023, 3:10 PM
>> Subject: Stop creating huge translation units in applications
>> To: <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com <mailto:mutlaqja at ikarustech.com>>, <kde-i18n-doc at kde.org <mailto:kde-i18n-doc at kde.org>>
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Jasem,
>> 
>> please stop creating huge translation units as the one at the end of
>> this message. It's difficult to translate or to spot a change that
>> you'll make in them in the future.
>> 
>> Recently it popped up as fuzzy during my translation session, and I
>> don't know what you've changed there. It could be a text or it could be
>> html formatting or it could be just a missing space somewhere. In either
>> case I need to read through all of its 5326 letters to find that out.
>> That slows down translation considerably.
>> 
>> I suggest to break such huge units to several smaller ones, and don't
>> overdo with including too much html formatting tags in them.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Łukasz
>> 
>> "<html><head/><body><p>Format is used to define the image file names by
>> the use of placeholder tags.</p><ul style="margin-top: 0px;
>> margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
>> -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px;
>> margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt- block-indent:0;
>> text-indent:0px;">Placeholder<span style=" font-weight:704; ">
>> %f</span> or <span style=" font-weight:704;">%filename</span>: The name
>> of the .esq file, without extension.</li><li style=" margin-top:0px;
>> margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
>> -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder<span style="
>> font-weight:704;"> %D</span> or <span style="
>> font-weight:704;">%Datetime</span>: The current time and date <span
>> style=" font-weight:704;">when the file is saved.</span></
>> li><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
>> li>margin-
>> right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder<span
>> style=" font-weight:704;"> %T</span> or <span style="
>> font-weight:704;">%Type</
>> span>: The frame type eg: 'Light', 'Bias', 'Dark', 'Flat'...</li><li
>> span>style=
>> " margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
>> -qt- block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder<span style="
>> font-weight:704; "> %e</span> or <span style="
>> font-weight:704;">%exposure</span>: The exposure duration in seconds,
>> with '_secs' as suffix.</li><ul style="margin- top: 0px; margin-bottom:
>> 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list- indent: 1;"><li
>> style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin- left:0px;
>> margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
>> ">Placeholder<span style=" font-weight:704;"> %E</span> or <span
>> style=" font-weight:704;">%exp</span>: The exposure duration in seconds
>> as plain number, without any unit as suffix.</li></ul><li style="
>> margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
>> -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder<span style="
>> font-weight:704;"> %F</span> or <span style="
>> font-weight:704;">%Filter</span>: The active filter name. </li><li
>> style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-
>> right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder<span
>> style=" font-weight:704;"> %t</span> or <span style="
>> font-weight:704;">%target</
>> span>: The Target name.</li><li style=" margin-top:0px;
>> span>margin-bottom:0px; 
>> margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
>> ">Placeholder <span style=" font-weight:600;">%C</span> or <span
>> style=" font-weight:600;">%temperature</span>: The camera temperature
>> of capturing. </li><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
>> margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style="
>> margin-top:0px; margin- bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
>> -qt-block-indent:0; text- indent:0px;">Placeholder <span style="
>> font-weight:600;">%B</span> or <span style="
>> font-weight:600;">%bin</span>: The binning configured for
>> capturing.</li><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-
>> left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
>> ">Placeholder <span style=" font-weight:600;">%G</span> or <span
>> style=" font-weight:600;">%gain</span>: The gain configured for
>> capturing.</li></
>> ul><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
>> ul>margin-
>> right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder <span
>> style=" font-weight:600;">%O</span> or <span style="
>> font-weight:600;">%offset</
>> span>: The offset configured for capturing.</li><ul style="margin-top:
>> span>0px; 
>> margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
>> -qt-list-indent: 1; "><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
>> margin-left:0px; margin- right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0;
>> text-indent:0px;">Placeholder <span style=" font-weight:600;">%I</span>
>> or <span style=" font-weight:600;">%iso</
>> span>: The ISO value (DSLRs only).</li></ul><li style=" margin-top:0px; 
>> margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
>> -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder <span style="
>> font-weight:600;">%P</span> or <span style="
>> font-weight:600;">%pierside</span>: The current mount's pier
>> side.</li><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-
>> left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
>> ">Placeholder<span style=" font-weight:704;"> %s*</span> or <span
>> style= " font-weight:704;">%sequence</span>: The image sequence
>> identifier where 
>> * is the number of digits used (1-9). <span style="
>> font-weight:704;">This tag is mandatory and must be the last element in
>> the format.</span></li></
>> ul><p>Arbitrary text may also be included within the Format string,
>> ul><span 
>> style=" font-weight:704;">except the % and \\ characters.</span> The / 
>> path character can be used to define arbitrary
>> directories.</p><p>Notes:</
>> p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
>> p>margin-
>> right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-
>> bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-
>> indent:0px;">Tags are case sensitive in both their short and long
>> forms.</
>> li><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
>> li>margin-
>> right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Only use the %Datetime
>> tag in the filename portion of the format, not in the path
>> definition.</li></
>> ul></body></html>"
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