On 12/28/2012 05:43 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: "pd-list@iem.at list" pd-list@iem.at Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [PD] more fun with translations
On 12/28/2012 04:22 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: "pd-list@iem.at list" pd-list@iem.at Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 2:39 PM Subject: Re: [PD] more fun with translations
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No, the idea would be there would be an editor for them, so that the
strings
can be extracted and put up on transifex, and then downloaded and
inserted
into a patch file. That would be the method for bulk translation.
Doesn't Transifex make Pd-Extended dependent and to some extent locked
in
to a commercial web service?
Transifex is all free software, so someone could run their own transifex instance if they wanted to. Transifex is based on the standard GNU gettext tools, so its easy to stop using it at anytime, and just use the normal .po translation tools like poedit. It is a commercial service, but I have no problem with commerce. Since it is not proprietary service, I see it as a great free software tool to support our free software work.
Oh ok, I seem to have misunderstood what it was.
BTW-- matju's GF helpsystem _does_ adjust vertical space as needed. :)
I think that automated text layout won't work well unless the layout engine can also move the patch stuff around.
I don't understand what this means. The GF abstractions get their x,y coordinates adjusted as needed to provide enough vertical space for everything.
-Jonathan
I meant that either the help patch would need to be laid out so that the auto-layout would not make the text overlap the example patch part, or the auto-layout would have to be aware of the patch part.
Another solution would be to have a text/comment field that saves carriage returns and paragraph breaks. Then a whole column of text could be in a single object, and then there would just need to be room at the bottom to accomodate different lengths of texts, depending on the language.
.hc