On Tuesday 02 April 2002 7:30 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> | Hello,
> |
> | I am trying to translate the menus of LyX 1.2.0 and the menu
> | Insert->Lists&TOC is not translatable in a satisfactory way :
> | to be displayed it seems to call FloatListInsert in src/MenuBackend.C
> | which concatenates the name of the float with " List".
> |
> | But if you translate into French for example, you need to have it the
> | other way : "Liste des " before the name of the float. (It shouldn't be
> | the only language)
> |
> | I have a similar problem with "Wide " + name of float :
> | the float names do not have all the same gender, and the translation
> | for "Wide " must vary accordingly ("Grand "/"Grande ").
> |
> | Maybe it spares a little duplication of code, but the translations will
> | be awful in some languages.
>
> The problem here is that the number of float types are dynamic, so
> currently a "floatname + ' List'" is done. I see that this needs
> changing to enable better translations, but do not expect that to
> happen for 1.2.0.
Would it not be possible to have a translatable string
"$$floatname List"
and to then substitute for $$floatname after the translation has been
performed.
Just a thought.
Angus
