On Friday 25 January 2002 5:16 pm, Peter Suetterlin wrote: Pit et al.,
the problem will occur if the final tab is pushed up against the right hand side of the dialog, so only part of the tab is displayed. So yes, this may well occur if you use a large font. Maybe, therefore, the recommendation to german users suffering from this problem is to use smaller fonts in the dialogs! Regards, Angus > Hi Juergen & all, > > Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > Angus Leeming wrote: > > > > This is unfortunately a bug in xforms itself and there's nothing we > > > can do about it other to avoid words longer than the widget. So, as > > > you say, inform Pit. > > > > OK... > > Pit, are you around? > > Yes, or no. I'm not sure. But that's something else ;-/ > > > We have encountered (again) a problem with long tab headers, which > > especially occurs (sometimes) with german translation, where we have > > tab headers like "Aufzählungszeichen" (in Document) and > > "Formatkonvertierung", "Zeichensätze Bildschirm" and > > "Benutzerschnittstelle" (in Preferences). > > Yes, I read through the thread. And I tried to reproduce the error, > but failed to do so. Whe I look at the tab sizes, they seem to adapt > to the size of the text even if it is much longer than the english > original. The size of the tabs *is* definitely different in english > and german versions. I get the impression that it's probably an > error of the font. What seems to happen is that the size gets > computed from the length of the string, but somehow this size is > wrong. But where is the error then? Are you sure it won't show up on > shorter words? > > > As you can see from the messages above, there's nothing that can be > > done from the devel side. > > Is it possible to replace those long words by shorter ones? > > Of course you can replace them. If you have good ideas how to name > them... The question is more: *which* should be replaced? There is > nothing from what I can see which should be changed. Many seem to be > harmless. Trying to get everything to the size of the english term > will end in a very hard to understand menu (unless you already know > what is in there). > > I'll try to go through the file during the weekend, but (as my system > doesn't trigger the segfault) I cannot check.... > > And of course, suggestions for short names are always welcome :-) > > Pit
