[lojban] Re: {WebMaster} Site Update: New translatable files.

["Philip Newton" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 29 Jun 2003 at 14:25, Adam Raizen wrote:

> The text to be translated should not be broken up like that. In other 
> words, instead of asking the translator to translate "Robin Turner
> and Nick Nicholas's", "Lojban For Beginners", and "lessons.", it 
> should ask for one translation of "Robin Turner and Nick Nicholas's <a
> href="http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/book1.html";>Lojban
> For Beginners</a> lessons."

Yes, please please please.

I see there is a similar inconsistency where "duplicate" translations 
are merged. I just came across this while looking at advanced.html, 
which has "The / Diagrammed Summary'' / of Lojban Grammar" and "The / 
jbovlaste dictionary inferface, / a way to browse and enter lojban word 
definitions".

Since both bullet points start with "The", they were merged. At least, 
that's what I assume happened; at any rate, there's only one 
translation string for "The". This is bad for languages with more than 
one definite article -- for example, in Germany, "The diagrammed 
summary" becomes something like "*Die* Zusammenfassung mit Diagrammen" 
while "The dictionary interface" becomes "*Das* Wörterbuch-Interface". 
The two incidences of "The" have to be translated differently.

It would be very good if whole sentences were available to be 
translated, including HTML tags if necessary. That makes it less likely 
to have duplicates wrongly merged and makes it easier for translators 
to re-arrange sentence word order.

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
filip.niutyn. <pnewton@gmx.de>