Re: Using conditional expressions in Gnome documentations

[Gabor Kelemen <kelemeng gnome hu>]

2012-12-06 14:51 keltezéssel, Shaun McCance írta:
> On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 11:03 +0100, Gabor Kelemen wrote:
> > 2012-12-05 22:00 keltezéssel, Shaun McCance írta:
> > > 2) We're really making translators lives unpleasant by having
> > > nearly identical duplicate strings, where the only difference
> > > is a URL they shouldn't change anyway. We could do something
> > > like this:
> >
> > I'm in to reduce the number of strings. However, this doesn't seem to
> > work for me:
> >
> > <p>Read the <link xref="help:ubuntu-help/a11y"
> > href="http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html";
> > xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"; its:withinText="yes">Universal
> > Access Help</link></p>
> >
> > Running itstool on the above results in this:
> >
> > #: C/index.page:25(when/p)
> > msgid "Read the <link xref=\"help:ubuntu-help/a11y\"
> > href=\"http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html\";
> > withinText=\"yes\">Universal Access Help</link>"
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> The only thing you're doing wrong is following my wrong example.
> That should be its:withinText="no". Sorry.
Still not good:

<p>Read the <link xref="help:ubuntu-help/a11y" 
href="http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html"; 
xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"; its:withinText="no">Universal 
Access Help</link></p>

becomes:

#: C/index.page:25(when/p)
msgid "Read the <link xref=\"help:ubuntu-help/a11y\" 
href=\"http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html\"; 
its:withinText=\"no\">Universal Access Help</link>"

Any idea? I'm getting this on Ubuntu 12.10 with Gnome 3.6 and itstool 1.1.3.

> > > I'm not sure what sucks more for translators.
> >
> > My vote is on the largely identical strings.
>
> I kind of figured. Split sentences are awful.

That too, but maintaining the same content twice is worse.

Regards
Gabor
> Claude's simplified-XML ITS extension would probably take care
> of this case nicely, but I never did merge that upstream.
>
> --
> Shaun