Re: [libreoffice-l10n] “Outline” is sometimes translated wrong

Thanks Neil, "outline" certainly has been a source of confusion.

If also other developers want to help filling in some context, some good 
candidates would be:
- "column" (a column in a table/spreadsheet/array, a column of text or a 
vertical bar?)
- "line" (graphics/geometry or text?) (this would be a pretty big task, 
though)
- "sheet" (a sheet of paper or a spreadsheet?)

Best regards,
Tuomas

Neil Roberts kirjoitti 14.8.2026 22:20:
> Hi folks,
>
> While doing some translation I noticed that a bunch of translations 
> have
> what looks like the wrong word to translate “outline”. This word is 
> used
> with two meanings, sometimes it is like an overview of something and
> sometimes it is the contours of a shape. When confronted with the 
> string
> in Weblate it’s very hard to find the context for the string so of
> course it’s totally understandable that sometimes the wrong meaning is
> assumed.
>
> For example:
>
> The string “Show outline” for dlg_InsertDataTable is a toggle button to
> decide whether to show the table border lines if you have a chart
> selected and you click Insert->Data table.
>
> In French this is translated as “Afficher le plan” and in Basque it is
> “Erakusti eskema”. Both of these seem quite likely to be the wrong
> translation.
>
> For the other sense there is “Click the outline style that you want to
> use” as the extended tip for the dialog that lets you choose a bullet
> point style. In Galicien this is “Prema no estilo de contorno que quere
> usar” and in Romanian it is “Dați clic pe stilul de contur pe care 
> vreți
> să îl utilizați”. Both of them contain a word that looks like “contour”
> and so might be wrong.
>
> I added some translator comments to a bunch of these strings in
> tdf#173043. If you want to verify your translations, you could check
> all the strings in this list:
>
> https://translations.documentfoundation.org/browse/libo_ui-master/-/en/?q=id%3A%3D78005009+OR+id%3A%3D78005014+OR+id%3A%3D45004816+OR+id%3A%3D34999869+OR+id%3A%3D24911563+OR+id%3A%3D24911564+OR+id%3A%3D24910571+OR+id%3A%3D149161110+OR+id%3A%3D24885994+OR+id%3A%3D24886392+OR+id%3A%3D24888089+OR+id%3A%3D45315779+OR+id%3A%3D45315780+OR+id%3A%3D45315781+OR+id%3A%3D24892330+OR+id%3A%3D24896331+OR+id%3A%3D24896332+OR+id%3A%3D24904433+OR+id%3A%3D24884530+OR+id%3A%3D24884754+OR+id%3A%3D24885631+OR+id%3A%3D169118295+OR+id%3A%3D24889087+OR+id%3A%3D25130490+OR+id%3A%3D24894898+OR+id%3A%3D24894945+OR+id%3A%3D25187580&sort_by=component%2C-priority&checksum=
>
> Happy translating!
>
> Regards,
> – Neil

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