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Re: First Frog Task


From: Carl D. Sorensen
Subject: Re: First Frog Task
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 20:05:15 -0700



On 1/4/09 5:33 PM, "John Mandereau" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 17:02 -0700, Carl D. Sorensen a écrit :
>> I don't understand the significance of the change from _i to _idoc (which I
>> would recommend instead of _doc).  What is the difference between the
>> "lilypond gettext domain" and the "lilypond-doc gettext domain".
> 

Anybody have complaints about using "_idoc"?

> The difference is about which domain each string is translated in:
> po/{lilypond.pot,*.po} for domain lilypond, and
> Documentation/{lilypond-doc.po,*.po} for domain.  PO files are loaded,
> installed and managed in radically different ways depending on the
> domain: lilypond domain is to be installed and is loaded at each
> lilypond execution, and it is managed by translation, whereas
> lilypond-doc is not installed (it might be in the future), not loaded by
> lilypond binary and managed directly on Git by translators and
> maintainers.

Thanks for the explanation.  This makes lots of sense.

> 
> 
>>   How would
>> I know that things are working properly after I changed all the docstrings
>> and the define-music-function macro?
> 
> Just compile the docs and check that music functions docstrings still
> appear in the docs.
> 

I don't need to check the translations, right?  As long as the english
docstrings appear we're good, right?

Carl





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