Re: Why manual po-file msgids one long line?
On 18/08/06, Tapio Lehtonen <tale@iki.fi> wrote:
Is it necessary to have the installer guide msgids in po files one
huge line? It would seem to me they could be indented to make them
more readable.
I mean, text like this is pretty bad for reading:
msgid ""
"The benefit you gain depends on a type of a MD device you are creating. "
"Currently supported are: <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term>RAID0</"
"term><listitem><para> Is mainly aimed at performance. RAID0 splits all "
"incoming data into <firstterm>stripes</firstterm> and distributes them "
"equally over each disk in the array. This can increase the speed of read/"
"write operations, but when one of the disks fails, you will loose "
"<emphasis>everything</emphasis> (part of the information is still on the "
"healthy disk(s), the other part <emphasis>was</emphasis> on the failed "
"disk). </para><para> The typical use for RAID0 is a partition for video "
"editing. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>RAID1</"
"term><listitem><para> Is suitable for setups where reliability is the first "
"concern. It consists of several (usually two) equally sized partitions where "
"every partition contains exactly the same data. This essentially means three "
"things. First, if one of your disks fails, you still have the data mirrored "
"on the remaining disks. Second, you can use only a fraction of the available "
"capacity (more precisely, it is the size of the smallest partition in the "
"RAID). Third, file reads are load balanced among the disks, which can "
"improve performance on a server, such as a file server, that tends to be "
...
Judging from the title I would have said that you wanted the layout above :-/
msgcat can do this.
I did not find a readymade program for indenting xml, but I could
write some python code to make the above indented sensibly. I was
planning setting a max line length and starting a new line for tags
like <listitem>, <para>, <varlistentry> etc.
Probably that would be a plus, but don't forget to keep spaces between
words where needed.
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Regards,
EddyP
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