[kde-doc-english] branches/work/doc

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On 8/9/11, Burkhard Lück <lueck at hube-lueck.de> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 7. August 2011, 07:58:04 schrieb Yuri Chornoivan:
>> написане Sun, 07 Aug 2011 06:55:46 +0300, Thomas Hollingsworth
>>
>> <tchollingsworth at gmail.com>:
>> > Methinks this would make translating easier as the shared chapter
>> > between kate and
>> > kwrite will always be exactly the same except for the lead paragraph.
>> > It certainly
>> > makes syncing much easier.  Please let me know if entities shouldn't be
>> > (ab)used
>> > this way and I'll sed them to normal text instead.
>>
>> To be honest it makes translation somewhat non-trivial. ;)
>>
>> Local (per-docbook) entities are untranslatable.
>
> Afaik it is possible to have translated entities defined in the docbook
> header,
> see http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=121213508303372&w=2.
>
> But this was never used so far and needs some testing.

AFAICT it seems to work.  Changing kwrite to use &i18n-powermode;
entities and running it through xml2pot gives this in the pot file:

#. Tag: !ENTITY
#: index.docbook:6
#, no-c-format
msgid "<!ENTITY i18n-powermode \"(power user mode)\">"
msgstr ""

> --
> Burkhard Lück

-T.C.