Re: [Libreoffice-commits] help.git: Mac does have a "Control" key

On 04/24/2017 02:21 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 04/24/2017 09:15 AM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> > > commit 0205b43e4d518239ff3d6b9bed0cc9317939acd9
> > > Author: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>
> > > Date:   Mon Apr 24 09:11:24 2017 +0200
> > >
> > >       Mac does have a "Control" key
> > >            (even labeled "Ctrl" on my German MacBook keyboard, not "Strg"
> > > as the
> > >       localization of "Ctrl" on German standard PC-style keyboards), and
> > > Writer's
> > >       "Format - Clear Direct Formatting" (which this help item is
> > > presumably about) is
> > >       indeed Ctrl+M (labeled "^M" in the menu) on macOS.
> > >            So unconditionally use "Ctrl+M" here for now, notwithstanding
> > > potential Mac
> > >       localization issues (see that German "Ctrl" vs "Strg" issue).
> >
> >
> > I have no idea how we generally handle this issue in documentation and
> > translation: always use generic "Ctrl+M" (whatever that gets translated to);
> > use some mark-up to ensure (German etc.) translation will be "Strg+M" for
> > non-Mac and "Ctrl+M" for Mac; use "Control+M" on Mac (as had been done prior
>
> Even if Macs might have a ctrl key now, most of the functions/commands
> are done with the command key, so it is not a mapping of changing the
> label of a key in the docs, it is actaully referring to a different
> keycombination.
>
> > to
> > <https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/help/commit/?id=9ed1958ba7f75bb4184f09d79814849d06313d72>
> > "I don’t think Macs have Control keys…"; or...?
>
> that is wrong. Just replacing cmd with ctrl won't make that shortcut
> work with ctrl+M

Of course not.  But this is about documenting LO behavior, and at least 
recent LO master on macOS behavior is that Writer's "Format - Clear 
Direct Formatting" is activated by Ctrl+M.