Re: Managing plurals

["Leonardo F. Fontenelle" <leonardof gnome org>]

Em Sex, 2008-08-08 às 21:30 +0200, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> gtranslator right now is using a kbabel like style for plurals based
> on tabs. 
> So I have: msgid with 2 tabs (Singular|Plural)
> and msgstr with N tabs (Singular|Plural 1 ...)
> 
> I want to add that when you are in a message with plurals and you are
> in the 
> singular tab of msgstr and you press next message, I want to do that
> gtranslator 
> switch to the Plural 1 tab, if you press again Pural 2 ...
> Another thing that I want to do is that if you are in Plural X on
> msgstr gtranslator
> switches automatically to the Plural 1 of msgid and if I come back to
> Singular of
> msgstr switch automatically to Singular of msgid.
> 
> As I only know about languages with 2 plurals here is the question:
> 
> Can I do this? I mean in Spanish/Galician if you in Plural 1 you want
> to see the Plural
> tab of msgid but is this user case possible in other languages?
> 

This would work for Portuguese, too (big surprise :) ) but probably not
for languages with n!=2.

Honestly I don't like tabs for msgid plurals. There will be always two
of them, so we'd rather display both the singular and the plural msgid
"in parallel". That should be much faster to translate, because of the
diminished browsing. Even better, there will be diminished _mouse_
browsing, because it's hard to navigate with the keyboard through 3 sets
of tabs (msgid, msgstr, catalogs). Original messages with plural forms
are typically short, so msgid[0] and msgid[1] could share the vertical
dimension of the msgid area of the GUI.


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Leonardo Fontenelle
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