Stop creating huge translation units in applications

Mon Jan 29 16:51:36 GMT 2024

It's nice that you're trying to solve the issue. AFAIK the issue is
mainly with KStars. I think it would be gone, if tooltips were used as
tooltips (short and concise) and not abused as
toolreferences/toolmanuals. Maybe that's why there is no reaction.

Cheers
Łukasz

On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:26:29 +0100
Oliver Kellogg <olivermkellogg at gmail.com> wrote:

> For your interest, I made a post in the Qt forum,
> https://forum.qt.io/topic/153993/ui-i18n-of-lengthy-tooltip-with-interspersed-stylesheet-markup
> but there haven't been any reactions yet.
> 
> Oliver
> 
> On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 1:10 PM Łukasz Wojniłowicz
> <lukasz.wojnilowicz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > span>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;">%I</span> or <span style="
> > font-weight:600;">%iso</  
> > span>: The ISO value (DSLRs only).</li></ul><li style="
> > span>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>"  
> 