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On Wednesday 30 August 2006 04:50, Malcolm <malcolm.parsons at gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/29/06, Ubuntu Wiki <noreply at ubuntu.com> wrote: > > The following page has been changed by SridharDhanapalan: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation/WordSubstitution > > > > + || cookie || biscuit || || || > > Does this apply when talking about cookies in a Web browser? > > Or syncookies in the kernel? Good point. I've ticked the 'Ask' column for this word. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "It's a sad day and a good day. For years I've held onto my IE install out of love. I worked on IE 1.0 thru 5.0, and was one of the people that designed much of its UI. But my love for the past has faded. Last week I switched to Firefox: and I've been happy." - Scott Berkun, program manager at Microsoft Corporation 1994-2003, 2005-09-12 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-l10n-eng/attachments/20060830/47f26c37/attachment.pgp

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On 8/30/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com> wrote: > IMHO that is an excellent approach. This kind of 'prosthetic' approach - where > the script helps the process but doesn't do it automatically - forces the > author to read and think about the whole string, not just the words that > require substitution. An automatic converter might encourage dependence and > laziness, and finer detail such as punctuation, grammar and style may become > ignored. Yes, the script can also be wrong in its suggestions. > How do you synchronise the word list on the wiki with the one in your script? > Considering that the wiki is constantly changing, manually updating the > script can be laborious and error-prone. It is manually updated. I've subscribed to that page of the wiki. Another problem is that I don't think greasemonkey has a way to check that you are using the latest version of the script. Maybe the script can be modified to be a firefox extension, as there is a method for checking for updates to extensions. > Can the script somehow provide a warning to users that it only checks words > for substitution and does not check punctuation, grammar or style? I would > not like translators depending upon it solely. They need to recognise the > limitations of the script. You've made it clear on the wiki. I think the people in this team are intelligent enough to understand how stupid the script is. -- Malcolm Parsons

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On 8/29/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com> wrote: > How does your script handle capitalised words and plurals? Does it substitute > in the correct forms of the words? For most words, letter case and any suffixes are ignored. I've decided not to do the substitution for you, the script will just give a list of suggestions. Examples: http://pepsiman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/launchpad_with_greasemonkey.png http://pepsiman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/launchpad_with_greasemonkey2.png New version of the script: http://pepsiman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/translate.user.js Remember to remove the old script before installing the new version. -- Malcolm Parsons

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On 8/30/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com> wrote: > IMHO that is an excellent approach. This kind of 'prosthetic' approach - where > the script helps the process but doesn't do it automatically - forces the > author to read and think about the whole string, not just the words that > require substitution. An automatic converter might encourage dependence and > laziness, and finer detail such as punctuation, grammar and style may become > ignored. Yes, the script can also be wrong in its suggestions. > How do you synchronise the word list on the wiki with the one in your script? > Considering that the wiki is constantly changing, manually updating the > script can be laborious and error-prone. It is manually updated. I've subscribed to that page of the wiki. Another problem is that I don't think greasemonkey has a way to check that you are using the latest version of the script. Maybe the script can be modified to be a firefox extension, as there is a method for checking for updates to extensions. > Can the script somehow provide a warning to users that it only checks words > for substitution and does not check punctuation, grammar or style? I would > not like translators depending upon it solely. They need to recognise the > limitations of the script. You've made it clear on the wiki. I think the people in this team are intelligent enough to understand how stupid the script is. -- Malcolm Parsons