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Re: tiny language tweaks in no-c-format description [patch]
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: tiny language tweaks in no-c-format description [patch] |
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Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:09:59 +0100 |
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Hello Benno,
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> The description of the 'c-format' and 'no-c-format' flags in `info
> gettext` contains a typo: "to check to validity" --> "to check the
> validity". Attached trivial patch fixes this, and makes a few other
> small changes for clarity.
Thanks you. I applied most of your patch. (If you were a native English
speaker, I would have applied your entire patch. But I think you are not,
therefore I applied my own judgement as well.)
Bruno
2008-02-02 Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden>
* gettext.texi (PO Files): Stylistic improvements.
--- gettext.texi 26 Dec 2007 16:02:00 -0000 1.148
+++ gettext.texi 2 Feb 2008 12:42:06 -0000
@@ -1472,16 +1472,16 @@
@kwindex address@hidden flag}
These flags should not be added by a human. Instead only the
@code{xgettext} program adds them. In an automated PO file processing
-system as proposed here the user changes would be thrown away again as
+system as proposed here, the user's changes would be thrown away again as
soon as the @code{xgettext} program generates a new template file.
-The @code{c-format} flag tells that the untranslated string and the
+The @code{c-format} flag indicates that the untranslated string and the
translation are supposed to be C format strings. The @code{no-c-format}
-flag tells that they are not C format strings, even though the untranslated
+flag indicates that they are not C format strings, even though the untranslated
string happens to look like a C format string (with @samp{%} directives).
-In case the @code{c-format} flag is given for a string the @code{msgfmt}
-does some more tests to check to validity of the translation.
+When the @code{c-format} flag is given for a string the @code{msgfmt}
+program does some more tests to check the validity of the translation.
@xref{msgfmt Invocation}, @ref{c-format Flag} and @ref{c-format}.
@item objc-format