Re: please cut up help text of xargs into manageable translatable chunks

[Bernhard Voelker]

On February 7, 2013 at 8:20 PM Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013, at 0:12, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> >   "), _("\
> >     -X, --xyz     some text\n\
> >   "), _("\
> >     -Y            another option with a longer\n\
> >                   description message\n\
> >   "), _("\
>
> Hmmm...  To me these intervening lines with '"), _("\' look
> distracting.

Admitted, but the point was a nice alignment of the description
column for options with a wrapped line. That would be harder
with such an approach:

>   HTL ("  -X, --xyz     some text\n\");
>   HTL ("  -Y            another option with a longer\n\
>                   description message\n\");

Thanks for the review.

Have a nice day,
Berny