Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Font scoring method

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

Peeking in before bedtime.  Hi Albert, been a while! :-D
Thanks for the guidance here.  I'm glad to see some motion here,
and wonder if a small bit of documentation somewhere on the
Tux Paint site (under /help/po/<something>), or maybe even in
the program's own documentation (adding to the EXTENDING doc's
"Translations" section) might be in order?!

I recently tried to tweak the comments in dirwalk.c to help
get the comment-based docs we _did_ have to appear in the
POT & PO files (they were missing(!)), which is a step in
the right direction. :)

-bill!

On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 05:00:10AM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> >>Would this chunk of currently unused code help you?
> >>
> >>          // translation spares -- design not finalized
> >>#if 0
> >>          user_font_styles[num_font_styles]->score +=
> >>            charset_works(font, gettext("<1>spare-1a"));
> >>          user_font_styles[num_font_styles]->score +=
> >>            charset_works(font, gettext("<1>spare-1b"));
> >>          user_font_styles[num_font_styles]->score +=
> >>            charset_works(font, gettext("<9>spare-9a")) * 9;
> >>          user_font_styles[num_font_styles]->score +=
> >>            charset_works(font, gettext("<9>spare-9b")) * 9;
> >>#endif
> >>
> >>It should not impact English, but that could use documentation!
> >>The text has repeated digits, either "1" or "9", causing the font
> >>to be considered bad, and thus the score does not increase.
> >>
> >>So you could translate like this:
> >>
> >>"<9>spare-9a" becomes a pair of hiragana.
> >>"<9>spare-9b" becomes a pair of katakana.
> >>"<1>spare-1a" becomes a pair of kanji.
> >>"<1>spare-1b" becomes the Yen and Yuan currency symbols.
> >
> > Oh, I think it will be the one I wanted to have!
> >
> > Of course I've noticed this unused part, but did not recognize the
> > difference to the one I proposed.
> >
> > Yes, the key is that original string has two same characters, is'nt
> > it! How clever!
> >
> > Do you mind if I enable this block now ?
> 
> If it meets your needs, you should enable it. It was intended to
> help you, but I wasn't sure if it would be the right thing.
> I left it disabled because I was unsure if it would be suitable.
> 
> Maybe you should add some comments to document it.
> If any paragraph from my email has been helpful, feel free
> to put it in a comment.
> 
> Notice that two of them are multiplied by 9. That gives them
> a stronger influence over font order. I think you'll want to use
> those for hiragana and katakana, and to use the others for
> kanji and the yen symbol. If you need more spares, add them.
> 
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