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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 29-01-17 om 18:23 schreef Albert
Astals Cid:<br>
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<pre wrap="">This thread is a textbook example of why top posting makes things hard to
read.
TBH I'm not sure what the problem is, is the problem that there are some
extracted tests that shouldn't be translated since they are "commands" ?
Cheers,
Albert</pre>
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<p>I agree that top posting should be avoided :)</p>
<p>The topic was started by me, the Dutch translator of &rkward;
. I encountered (one so far) message string which is way to long,
covering more than two A-4 pages when copied into LibreOffice. I
did not count the number of lines, too difficult for me.<br>
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<p>Said message string was in rkwardplugin.po, a very difficult to
translate .po file as it is already, and encountering a complete
docstring file is a very unnerving experience.</p>
<p>I asked what can be done about this, suggesting that such monster
messages be divided into a number of smaller ones.</p>
<p>Of course a translator can do this himself, but I think that
translating should be made as comfortable for the tens, or even
hundreds of translators around the world.</p>
<p>Another suggestion, from Thomas Friedrichsmeier, who reacted very
sympathetically to my mail, is that somehow should be made clear
to translators what to translate, and what not. It is very easy to
translate the given code examples into chunks of unworkable
rubbish, which is not what anyone wants.</p>
<p>My suggestion is to use another colour of font (I said letter,
but I guess it should be font) for text which must not be
translated.</p>
<p>Myself I have an idea what should be left alone and what not,
having some programming experience, but I am quite certain most
translators don't.</p>
<p>I hope you are now informed (as far as I am), and hope your cry
for <font size="+2">not</font> top posting will be honoured :)</p>
<p>As I am new to this forum, let me introduce myself:</p>
<p>Jaap Woldringh, Dutch, retired math teacher, dabbling with
programmable HP RPN calculators from 1976, with micro computers
from 1981 (Acorn Atom, BBC-B), and with programming in Fortran
(self taught, brrrr, Pascal, Basic, FORTH, and so on, and some
knowledge of the more modern programming languages, latest one is
Python. As a math teacher I don't program: I only make little
programs for mathematical problems, so I am not really a
programmer.</p>
<p>I translate into Dutch a number of mathematical programs, mostly
kdeedu, for more than 10 years now, though I don't use the
KDE-dsktop anymore since they moved from KDE3 (perfect for me) to
KDE4 and later, not so perfect.</p>
<p>Greetings from</p>
<p>Jaap Woldringh<br>
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