RE: Re: Spellchecking of manuals

Hi Simon,

You wrote:

> Thanks for sorting this out, Stan.

Yes, well done Stan :)

> One more request, which is not
> trivial enough for me to do myself. I want to exclude tags of the form
> <tagname condition="pot"> for example <entry condition="pot">, which
> are excluded from the translation because they are parameter or
> switch names.

Simon, The idea to use the condition="pot" attribute to exlude strings from spell checking is nice, but I'm afraid it breaks the translation, because the entire tag gets removed when the .pot file is created.

Example from tsvn_app_automation.xml:
<para>
<option condition="pot">/closeonend:0</option> don't close the dialog automatically
</para>

Gets reduced to:
<para>
don't close the dialog automatically
</para>

by the .pot profiler. It's the way docbook profiling works, sorry. It drops entire tags. For the translation the full string including the <option> tag is used, which means that xml2po.py doesn't find a match.

1) A way to overcome this would be to tell xml2po.py that <option> (and maybe others) is a tag that has to be extracted separately. This would allow us to use the condition="pot" attribute

2) Another solution is to either use Stans tag filter and add more tags
3) or to use a different attribute for sections that should not be spell checked and teach the filter to exclude those attributed tags. In the example above:

<para>
<option spellcheck="false">/closeonend:0</option> don't close the dialog automatically
</para>

would still include the entire paragraph in the .pot file. The translator has to copy & paste the <option> tag, but at least he knows what he is translating.

Three ways to solve the problem. I think the effort is about the same for each direction. Which path should we follow? My personal favourite is 3) because I think that some tags should go into the .pot file, but not be spell checked.

Cheers
- Lübbe

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