[#311647] Allow marking some paragraphs/phrases as not-for-translation

Date:
2009-05-03 14:04 Priority:
3

State:
Open

Submitted by:
Michael Terry (mterry-guest) Assigned to:
Nobody (None)

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Resolution:
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Summary:
Allow marking some paragraphs/phrases as not-for-translation

Detailed description
It would be nice if I could mark some paragraphs as untranslatable. For example, say I have a docbook flie that lists a number of file paths as part of the documentation. These paths (like ~/.cache) show up to be translated, but I don't want them to be. Maybe some format-specific comment that po4a understands? In the docbook example, the paragraph being preceded by <!-- po4a: ignore --> or something.

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Date: 2010-07-29 13:39 Sender: Denis Barbier You are right, that would be nice. The parser can cope with comments only if they are embedded within a paragraph, which means that in XML one has to write <para><!-- Hey translator -->Foo bar</para> to have this comment printed into PO files. One could indeed define special comments, e.g. <para><!-- po4a: ignore -->Foo bar</para> to have a paragraph copied verbatim into translated documents. Note that these comments will not be removed from translated documents, I believe that this is fine. You can test by editing Locale/Po4a/Xml.pm like this: replace if ($translate ne "") by if ($translate ne "" && !(defined($comments) && $comments =~ m/^\spo4a:\signore/s)) I will commit this change unless you report problems with it.
Date: 2010-07-29 18:14 Sender: Michael Terry That would be fine. I'd also be interested in similar syntax for man pages too.

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