Re: please attempt to minimize string changes

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

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В Вс, 22/12/2013 в 00:55 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
пишет:
> > 
> > While updating the Dutch translations of grub's messages, I notice that
> > some strings have changed in unnecessary ways.  The change that makes
> > me write this mail is the one in util/grub-mkrescue.c, lines 215-217.
> > Those three lines were gettextized separately, which was very well,
> > because they are separate paragrahs.  Now they are a single string,
> > which is not only unwieldy, and ungraspable in one view, but also every
> > translator has to concatenate her three previous separate translations
> > into a single one.  Unneeded work.  Please gettextize those paragraphs
> > again separately, so the translations need to be tweaked only slightly.
> > 
> grub-mkrescue was rewritten in C and current segmentation is imposed by
> argp. I don't know if there is a way to put old strings there.
> Perhaps someone more familiar with srgp could help?

Will below patch help? It also removes trailing dot on the first
paragraph which was not present before. Compile tested.

> > 
> > By the way, in grub-core/commands/terminal.c, couldn't
> >   "[--append|--remove] [TERMINAL1] [TERMINAL2] ..."
> > simply be:
> >   "[--append|--remove] [TERMINAL...]"?
> > 
> I find second less clear since it's more difficult to guess that the
> "..." stands for ("[TERMINAL3]",...)
> 

I usually use [TERMINAL ...] (with extra spaces). I find it established
enough practice at least in UNIX manuals.

From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] split grub-mkresecue help text to keep existing translations

Reported by Benno Schulenberg

---
 util/grub-mkrescue.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/util/grub-mkrescue.c b/util/grub-mkrescue.c
index ad45f9c..635ae63 100644
--- a/util/grub-mkrescue.c
+++ b/util/grub-mkrescue.c
@@ -218,9 +218,9 @@ struct argp argp = {
   N_("Make GRUB CD-ROM, disk, pendrive and floppy bootable image.")"\v"
   N_("Generates a bootable CD/USB/floppy image.  Arguments other than options to this program"
      " are passed to xorriso, and indicate source files, source directories, or any of the "
-     "mkisofs options listed by the output of `%s'.\n\n"
-     "Option -- switches to native xorriso command mode.\n\n"
-     "Mail xorriso support requests to <bug-xorriso@gnu.org>."), 
+     "mkisofs options listed by the output of `%s'\n") "\n"
+     N_("Option -- switches to native xorriso command mode.") "\n\n"
+     N_("Mail xorriso support requests to <bug-xorriso@gnu.org>."), 
   NULL, help_filter, NULL
 };
 
-- 
tg: (bf08219..) u/grub-mkrescue-i18n (depends on: master)



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