[kde-doc-english]Doc for konqueror

[Malcolm Hunter]

On Tuesday 03 September 2002 19:38, Pam R wrote:
> You mean where, for example, I have put
> <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click ...
> rather than
> &LMB; click ... ?
>
> It has been done deliberately, because &LMB; would get expanded to
> <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> mouse button click ...
> which IMHO is a rather ponderous way of expressing things in en_US,
> especially when it occurs many many times in the text.
>
> I seem to remember that this point was raised soon after the &LMB; etc.
> entities were introduced, and some translators also raised potentiol
> problems with the use of &LMB; and its friends.
>
> But, I wasn't aware that doing this leads to markup problems and more
> complicated translation, perhaps you could explain this more fully so that
> we can arrive at an optimum solution.

I agree with you totally on this, Pam. I think maybe all docs need to be 
reviewed in this case, for the appropriate use of these entities.

Regards,
Malcolm
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