Hi all, I recently searched for unbalanced parentheses, braces, quotes, ... and was already able to fix a few (not many) in English and German.
I performed also more checks and fixed many wrong URLs and other stuff. I want to commit the following, can someone please check it? Index: english/misc/children-distros.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/misc/children-distros.wml,v retrieving revision 1.31 diff -u -r1.31 children-distros.wml --- english/misc/children-distros.wml 18 Feb 2004 03:53:19 -0000 1.31 +++ english/misc/children-distros.wml 14 Mar 2004 22:36:48 -0000 @@ -230,10 +230,10 @@ <P>Linex has drawn a lot of attention not just from non-Spanish newspapers like the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A59197-2002Nov2&notFound=true";>Washington Post</A>, -but from the even the European Parliament, where it was presented in +but even from the European Parliament, where it was presented in several occasions, the latest one in the annual meeting of the -European Regions Comitee (news posted in February 2003 -(<a href="http://www.consultia.net/esnoticia/vernoticia.asp?id=4489&seccion=2";> ^^^ this parenthesis is wrong +European Regions Comitee (news posted in February 2003 +<a href="http://www.consultia.net/esnoticia/vernoticia.asp?id=4489&seccion=2";>\ here</A> or <a href="http://www.elperiodicoextremadura.com/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=40043";>here</A>, in Spanish only). I suggest that you perform this check on other translations as well (it's very fast!): (You can obtain ./pattern-match from http://alioth.debian.org/ ==> Code Snippets ==> File Management, I suggest to remove LaTeX specific pattern in it and to add language specific stuff, such as French quotes ">>", "<<") cd webwml/<lang> find -type f ! -name "*.jpeg" ! -name "*.png" ! -name "*.jpg" ! \ -name "*.ico" ! -name "*.gif" > /tmp/filelist for f in $(cat /tmp/filelist); do echo $f >> /tmp/done cp $f /tmp/file echo file=$f input=y while [ x"$input" = x"y" ]; do if [ $(cat /tmp/file | sed 's/:-)/xxx/;s/:)/xx/' | ./pattern-match | \ tee /tmp/output | wc -l) -eq 0 ] ; then input=n else cat /tmp/output; echo "check this file again? (y/n)"; read input fi done done You should edit the temporary /tmp/file in another xterm to remove bogus data (comments, smileys, ...) and restart the test on this file. This mostly removes all problems, otherwise, when you really found a wrong pattern, edit the file mentioned in the output ("file=" line). The script produces the following output: ... file=./CD/vendors/index.wml file=./CD/vendors/info.wml file=./CD/vendors/legal.wml Wrong pattern ) (no corresponding left pattern) in line 35, column 9 Wrong pattern ) (no corresponding left pattern) in line 47, column 9 Wrong pattern ) (no corresponding left pattern) in line 65, column 9 Wrong pattern ) (no corresponding left pattern) in line 72, column 56 check this file again? (y/n) (You will notice that these warnings are related to enumerations a), b), ...; the script cannot recognize these. Change these to a, b, ... in /tmp/file, restart using pressing "y" Enter and the script continues.) Most of the wrong pattern I found were already fixed in at least one translation. TRANSLATORS PLEASE FIX ENGLISH FILES AS WELL WHEN YOU FIND ERRORS IN IT. If you are unsure contact me. You should not count parentheses in smileys: use "(text :-))" instead of "(text :-)" to reduce trouble. It would be nice if you could also call webwml/polish$ grep -ri '\.<[^>]\{0,10\}>\.' . ./CD/faq/index.wml: image...</i>. Pó¼niej wybierz rozszerzenie ,,.iso'' i po¿±dany ./CD/artwork/index.wml:href="$(HOME)/logos/">dostêpne w ró¿nych wersjach.</a>.</p> [snip] As you can see this matches many double full stops (".</a>.") (It's too much for a single person to fix.) PS: I *strongly* suggest that you call grep on all found typos to fix all occurrences. I revised the German files this way and was already able to fix thousands of typos. This includes fixes for "Debain", "DSFG" and many more. Jens
