[kde-doc-english]Doc for konqueror

[Éric Bischoff]

On Tuesday 03 September 2002 20:38, Pam R wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 September 2002 8:54 am, Éric Bischoff wrote:
> > Pam,
> >
> > I have noticed that LMB;, MMB; and RMB; are not systematically used in
> > konqueror's documentation, leading to marjup problem and more complicated
> > translation.
> >
> > Would it be possible to search occurences of "left", "right" and
> > "middle", and to replace when needed? I did not do it myself, because I
> > knew you are currently working on that doc.
>
> Hi Eric
>
> You mean where, for example, I have put
> <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click ...
> rather than
> &LMB; click ... ?

No. This is okay, although it sometimes generates more work for the 
translators (not always).

I was rather meaning
	<mousebutton>left</mousebutton> mouse button
=>
	&LMB;

> 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 agree. I was not speaking about those ones.

> 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.

There are no problems with &LMB; entities in translations.

Just that it becomes a bit tedious when a language, like German, uses 
declensions. But even if the translators in some languages deliberately don't 
use them, there are many languages where they are really useful (like French, 
Spanish, and of course English).

> 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.

The markup problems were for example :
	right mouse button
=> missing <mousebutton> tags
which would have been avoided if
	&RMB;
had been used.

-- 
Éric Bischoff