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Re: Inconsistent usage of period

From: Lübbe Onken <luebbe.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 08:09:39 +0200

Jean-Marc wrote:

2011/5/31 Jean-Marc van Leerdam <j.m.van.leerdam_at_gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> While translating, I notice quite a few occurrences of a two-line
> source string that contain a command followed by a newline and a one
> line explanation of the command. That explanation is often terminated
> with a period, but sometimes it has no period. I suggest we either
> remove all the periods on these one liners, or use a period on all of
> them.
>
> Examples with period:
> Comment: Resource IDs: (314)
> Comment: Resource IDs: (589)
>
> Examples without period:
> Comment: Resource IDs: (147)
> Comment: Resource IDs: (315)
>
> My personal preference: lose the period.
>

You're right, but who's going to go through all the ressources and fix it?
The translation fix is relatively simple, especially when you use Virtaal
0.7 (RC2 is the latest version) which has a lot of nice quality checks like
inconsistent punctuation and more.

Cheers
- Lübbe

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