https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173192
Bug ID: 173192
Summary: “Create %s from” is difficult to translate
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 27.2.0.0 alpha0+ master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
tdf#153770 added a string with the text “Create %s from” where the %s is
replaced by the type of table of contents to be created. The replacement text
comes from the label in the drop down box. This is difficult to translate for
languages that have grammatical cases because the %s part would need to be in
the accusative case in the label but in a different case (nominative?) for the
drop down box.
For example in Esperanto “Alphabetical Index” is “Alfabeta indekso”, but in the
label it would need to have n’s added to be in the accusative like “Krei
alfabetan indekson de”. I’m sure many other languages have the same problem.
There is also the separate problem mentioned by Adolfo on Gerrit that a lot of
languages would need an article before the %s and the article likely depends on
the gender. For example in French you would probably want the string to be
“Créer une table des matières pour” (ie, table is feminine) but “Créer un index
lexical pour” (ie, index is masculine).
Maybe it would be better to have separate strings for each type of ToC.
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