Re: Bug#886672: [ddtp] aeolus - german localization

[Martin Eberhard Schauer <Martin.E.Schauer@gmx.de>]

l10n-english cc-ed, i18n removed as it seems German - English problem to me)

Hi Jaromír,

the easy thing first. I'll write a mail when the description has changed.

i think that there is a problem with the Englisch description too. It seems
to be copied verbatim from [1]. "synthesized … emulator" sounds weird to me.
And I wonder how important the hardware restrictions are nowadays.

Somebody commented on the web interface to the best translation:

   (umlaeute) i still doubt that "eine Stimme geben" is the best 
translation
   for "to voice", as the latter appears to be a terminus technicus in the
   context of organs (though i do not know the correct English translation;
   a quick web search indicates that the correct translation would be
   "intonieren")

Wikipedia [2] says yes to "intonieren" and there even is an English
translation [3] for intonieren (to intone). The Google translation is

   Intonation as tone color and volume balance

   Especially in keyboard instruments, where there is a separate tone
   generator (usually strings or whistles) for each tone, intonation means
   the equalization of volume and tone of the tone generators.

I suggest to explain intonise and reword short description and first
paragraph of the description[4] to make it better understandable for
non-musicians:

   synthesiser for emulating pipe organs

    Aeolus is a pipe organ emulator that should be good enough to make an
    organist enjoy playing it. It is a software synthesiser optimised for
    this job, with possibly hundreds of controls for each stop, that enable
    the user to intonate his instrument, i.e. equalize volume and tone 
of the
    pipes.

Cheers,
   Martin



1: http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/aeolus/
2: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonieren
3: https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/intonieren

4:
Description: Synthesised pipe organ emulator
 Aeolus is a synthesised (i.e. not sampled) pipe organ emulator that
 should be good enough to make an organist enjoy playing it. It is a
 software synthesiser optimised for this job, with possibly hundreds
 of controls for each stop, that enable the user to "voice" his
 instrument.
 .
 Main features of the default instrument: three manuals and one pedal,
 five different temperaments, variable tuning, MIDI control of course,
 stereo, surround or Ambisonics output, flexible audio controls
 including a large church reverb.
 .
 Aeolus is not very CPU-hungry, and should run without problems on a
 e.g. a 1GHz, 256Mb machine.