* Gerfried Fuchs <alfie@ist.org> [2004-01-10 15:02]:
> * Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org> [2004-01-10 01:02]:
>> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:54:03AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Look at http://www.debian.org/events/speakers/
>>>
>>> Ideally, it would say "topic" when there's 1 topic, and "topics" when
>>> there are multiple. However, I'm not sure if this is easily possible.
>>
>> This is not trivial, a new <ngettext> tag must be added to mp4h to
>> handle plural forms.
>
> Shouldn't be somehow possible to count the embedded <topic> tags in the
> <topics> container and perl print "Topic" . ($count == 1) ? "" : "s" or
> something like that should be doable, shouldn't it?
Uhm, nonsense, of course I meant
print ($count == 1)
? "<gettext>Topic</gettext>"
: "<gettext>Topics</gettext>";
But you get the idea.
So long,
Alfie
--
Richard had noticed that events were cowards:
they didn't occur singly, but instead they would
run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
-- Neil Gaiman, "Neverwhere"
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