Hi Hector, I know exactly what you talk about - it's often really hard to make sense of those sentences that have been split by a <b> tag, a link or similar. I am not sure we can totally avoid these constructs, but it's certainly something to keep in mind that can help make life easier for translators. I'd love if we could find a way to parse those constructs better, so they can be translated as one string/entry. Katrin Am 23.10.2015 um 19:57 schrieb Hector Castro:

Hi Koha Developers

I don't know if we can use another style when write down paragraphs; some html tags among paragraph, for example if we use <code> <abbr>, <strong>, <acronym> etc., are split in different entries in the po files, and this do the translation very hard, for example this bug <http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14671>

In the new 3.22 exists another example:

koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/about.tt <http://about.tt>

lines 262-264

<td>You are missing the <strong><upload_path></strong> entry in your koha-conf.xml file. Please add it, pointing to the configured file upload directory for your Koha instance. Also note that you need to properly set the <strong>OPACBaseURL</strong> preference for the file upload plugin to work.</td>

The generated PO file

#: intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/about.tt:255 <http://about.tt:255> #: intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/about.tt:262 <http://about.tt:262> #, c-format msgid "You are missing the " msgstr "Falta la entrada "

#: intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/about.tt:255 <http://about.tt:255> #: intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/about.tt:262 <http://about.tt:262> #, c-format msgid "<upload_path>" msgstr "<upload_path>"

#: intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/about.tt:262 <http://about.tt:262> #, c-format msgid "" "entry in your koha-conf.xml file. Please add it, pointing to the configured " "file upload directory for your Koha instance. Also note that you need to " "properly set the " msgstr ""

#: intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/about.tt:264 <http://about.tt:264> #, c-format msgid "OPACBaseURL" msgstr "OPACBaseURL"

#: intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/about.tt:264 <http://about.tt:264> #, c-format msgid "preference for the file upload plugin to work. " msgstr ""

Finally this end up in a nonsensical translation

IMHO, If developers can really take into consideration not to use this kind of paragraphs and -if possible- modify the coding guidelines in wiki page to reflect this.

Or if there are another option to do life easy for translators?...

Regards

-- Atte,

Hector Eduardo Castro Avalos

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