Re: [Audacity-translation] Line Time

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From Milos Sramek <sra...@gm...> 
| Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:18:21 +0200
| Subject: [Audacity-translation] Line Time
> You can download Slovak translation here:
> http://bender.dam.fmph.uniba.sk/~milos/sk-audacity.po

Thanks, though it would be easier to attach a zipped copy to the list. 
I committed it. 


> Messages do not distinguish between different plural forms. Would it be 
> possible to modify the messages to use them? It probably applies to all 
> messages with %d in them. I volunteer to do that, but I need some 
> instructions.

I take it your issue is that while in English it is acceptable to add 
"(s)" for a plural alternative, in other languages the plural must
be a different word, or there may be different words for different 
quantities of the noun?

So do I assume you want to use ngettext functions

e.g.   printf (ngettext ("%d file removed", "%d files removed", n), n);

as per:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural-forms.html ?

If so, I think a developer would have to comment about that. 


> Would it be possible to add the Slovak translation now to the Windows 
> version? It seems so that the Windows version of Audacity is used by 
> quite some middle school teachers for teaching.

The teachers should be able to see a Slovak language choice in 
Audacity's Interface Preferences if they download Audacity from 
our site:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows . 

We don't modify a release once made, so if the teachers want the 
complete translation you just made, they will not be able to get that
until the next release of Audacity, unless they download the next 
Nightly Build (09 April) from here:
http://gaclrecords.org.uk/win-nightly/ .

You must be sure to tell the teachers that those are not released 
builds, so they may contain bugs. 


Thanks for your interest!



Gale 


> Dna 03.04.2012 19:53, Gale Andrews  wrote / napísal(a):
> > | From Milos Sramek<sra...@gm...>
> > | Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:18:02 +0200
> > | Subject: [Audacity-translation] Line Time
> >> I am new here and am translating Audacity to Slovak.
> > Welcome aboard, and thanks for volunteering.
> Thanks :)
> Best!
> Milos
> >
> >
> >> I have a problem with "Line Time". What does it mean?
> > If you do not know what a term means and there is no i18n
> > comment, it is best to look at the audacity.pot file which tells you
> > the source code file and line number the string relates to:
> > http://audacity.sourceforge.net/locale/audacity.pot   .
> >
> > > From the .pot you can see that the two "line number" strings
> > come from effects/ScoreAlignDialog.cpp (for audio-midi alignment).
> > EXPERIMENTAL_SCOREALIGN is not defined by default, so only
> > someone who can compile Audacity can turn it on.
> >
> > @Roger (who I've Cc'd), is it possible to add some i18n comments
> > to effects/ScoreAlignDialog.cpp to help translators?  For example,
> > translators often ask what "Presmooth time" means. I tend to think
> > "time" there could be better translated as "length", but I am not
> > familiar with this feature.
> >
> >
> >> Even though this is the only untranslated string now, quite many strings
> >> in GUI remain in English. For example "Click track", "Beat finder" and
> >> others.
> > All those are Nyquist effects. At the moment there is no way of
> > adding translations of those to gettext. All that could be done
> > would be for a translator to translate the .ny files and then we
> > would make them separately available for download. Translating
> > the .ny files needs care so as not to break the plug-in.
> >
> > However I think James has plans to work on making Nyquist
> > effects translatable.
> >
> > Are there any other strings untranslated in GUI, except for Nyquist
> > effects?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Gale