Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Capturing and sharing translator feedback using x-comment language

2011/3/2 Dwayne Bailey <dwayne@translate.org.za>:
> On 2011-03-02 09:45, Andras Timar wrote:
> > 2011/3/2 Dwayne Bailey<dwayne@translate.org.za>:
> > > I few years ago I worked on some changes to oo2po that allowed the
> > > 'x-comment' language to be extracted to translator comments.  Similarly
> > > the
> > > 'translations' of x-comment could be pushed back into the source.
> > >
> > > This puts translator comments in the hands of people who understand what
> > > needs commenting.  Comments would be useful in place where:
> > >
> > >  1. Variables are not clearly defined
> > >  2. Blank entries
> > >  3. Verb/noun disambiguation
> > >
> > > I haven't used the x-comment feature since I wrote it.  But I assume it
> > > will
> > > still work.
> > >
> > > It works quite simply.  The 'translations' are placed in x-comment
> > > entries.
> > >  When running oo2po the 'x-comments' are placed in the PO files
> > > translator
> > > comments section.
> > >
> > > Then on Pootle any translator can make a suggestion to the x-comment
> > > language, an English review team would go through those comments, make
> > > fixes
> > > in the source string or accept the comment.  Each release would need to
> > > be
> > > 'translated' by the team to review any new texts.
> >
> > Hi Dwayne,
> >
> > This sound very interesting. How can you extract x-comments that it is
> > not present in the SDF template? Can you please give us the commands
> > to use?
>
> This is the bit that is outside of my expertise.  How is the EN/DE .sdf
> created in the first place.  From my understanding it would then be a matter
> of adding x-comment.

It needs further investigation then. .sdf file does not contain
x-comment by default.
Caolan has added a new easy hack to address this issue:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks#Export.2FImport_.src_comments_to_.sdf.2F.po_format

Andras

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