Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED] Re: [PATCH] Translate German comments to English and correct the English ones

On 4 January 2012 14:07, Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/01/12 12:57, Philipp Weissenbacher wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here's another patch that translates the German comments to English
> > and fixes some errors in the English ones.
>
> thanks, pushed (tweaked the translations a bit in a follow-up)
>
> > In htmltbl.cxx:
> > I interpreted 'tab' in some OSL_ENSUREs as 'table' and replaced 'table
> > in table' with 'nested table' (that seems somewhat clearer to me).
>
> why not :)
>
> > In number.cxx:
> > The code on lines 531/532 seems to be duplicated on lines 535/536. The
> > same is repeated on the next lines. Is that intended?
>
> surprisingly that is actually correct, because there are 2 arrays of
> size MAXLEVEL, i.e. it is an array [2][MAXLEVEL]; see the constructor of
> the class.  but of course writing it in this way is rather ugly, nested
> loop would be nicer.
>
> some misc. translation points:
>
> - "eventual" means something completely different from German
>  "eventuell"
> - "echt groesser" is a mathematical term and the "echt" is translated
>  as "strictly"
> - when it comes to numbering, "Gliederung" is "Outline"

Thanks a lot for these!
This "ambiguity of terms" is what makes translating somewhat involved
(next to monster/broken sentences).

Regards,
Philipp