Use Doc PO files for something (Was Fwd: [translations] Translation of "top" and broken link)

[Francisco Vila]

I'd like a bug to be open about this, if possible.  Translated docs
used to make all comments, context IDs and variable names in lilypond
code to become translated from strings in
Documentation/po/<language>.po files. This does not work anymore and
we are not able to determine when did stop working.  Translate strings
in a PO file is much more efficient than trying to keep texinfo files
in sync, so we think Documentation PO files should serve for a purpose
as they used to as told above.

This is important because the documentation relies much on inline code
comments and you can obtain a truly localized look and feel if this
worked.  Current 2.12 docs are fine wrt this.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jean-Charles Malahieude <address@hidden>
Date: 2011/2/27
Subject: Re: [translations] Translation of "top" and broken link
To: Francisco Vila <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden


Le 27/02/2011 19:23, Francisco Vila disait :
>
> 2011/2/26 Jean-Charles Malahieude<address@hidden>:
>>>
>>> Besides: does anyone know if we are using Documentation/po/*.po
>>> files for anything useful?
>>>
>>
>> It normally is used to localize variable names and comments in the
>> snippets.
>
> When was the last time you checked this? I can not see comments or
> variable names to appear in Spanish or French in bigpage NR (for
> example; others not checked.)
>
> for example, fr.po has
>
> #. Documentation/extending/scheme-tutorial.itely:1354 (variable)
> #. Documentation/learning/fundamental.itely:3003 (variable)
> #. Documentation/learning/fundamental.itely:3058 (variable)
> #. Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely:3802 (variable)
> msgid "padText"
> msgstr "decallageTexte"
>
> (l.334)
>
> but no decallageTexte around, only padText everywhere.
>


I don't understand what's happening. If you look at the stable version
of the tutorial, you'll see that the snippets in "2.1.2 Simple notation"
get translated. Too bad that I have not noticed when this got ineffective...

Cheers,
Jean-Charles



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