Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:52:36 +0100 | From | Dominik Mierzejewski <> | Subject | Re: Configure.help editorial policy |
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On Thursday, 27 December 2001, Riley Williams wrote: > Hi Dominik. [snip] > > I second this. Being a translator of the file in question, I have to > > deal with ten slightly different versions of "You may also compile > > this as a module...". So I have ten slighlty different translations > > of this text, too, in the name of accuracy. > > I have to admit that I hadn't considered translators, but perhaps it > could be made even simpler for you. How about having the help file start > with a set of standard definitions, such as the following... > > ===8<=== CUT ===>8=== [cut indeed :-)] > ===8<=== CUT ===>8=== > > The rules would then reduce to "If the relevant condition applies, > append the text associated with the relevant DEFINE_ symbol to the help > text to be issued" and this could be done with an additional call to the > routine to extract the appropriate help text from the file. In addition, > your translation efforts would be restricted to just the COnfigure.help > file, and you wouldn't have to tweak the various configuration scripts > at the same time - and this would also ensure that the various config > scripts all used exactly the same help text.
Nice, but - as Eric pointed out - there are many options where the "available as module" text actually contains a module name, which causes problems and makes your proposition insufficient for our needs. A complete solution would require serious changes which Eric doesn't want to introduce into a stable version.
> > Although I thought there was an agreement that decimal kilobyte is > > kB, and binary kilobyte is KiB, decimal megabyte is MB, binary > > megabyte is MiB and so on, wasn't there? > > That's the standard that the IEC has defined, and what this thread is > all about. Whether it'll get anywhere remains to be seen - ask Ted T'so > about the dangers of early adoption of proposed standards, and he'll > probably explain where his surname came from...
Perhaps I will. But I still don't understand why you insist on choosing an opposite notation - that is xiB for decimal and xB for binary. If at all, I would change the traditional convention to something exactly opposite, i.e. xiB for binary and xB for decimal, because M(mega),G(giga), etc. are standard SI units.
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