Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:50:07 GMT From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/160284: [patch] Inconsistent spacing between colons in French translation of Dtrace Handbook chapter. Message-ID: <201108291950.p7TJo7BO072269@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/160284; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To: Isabell Long <isabell121@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/160284: [patch] Inconsistent spacing between colons in
French translation of Dtrace Handbook chapter.
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:45:18 +0200
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 05:40:13PM +0000, Isabell Long wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/160284; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Isabell Long <isabell121@gmail.com>
> To: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>
> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: docs/160284: [patch] Inconsistent spacing between colons in
> French translation of Dtrace Handbook chapter.
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:05:45 +0100 (BST)
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Chris Rees wrote:
>
> > I may be incorrect here, but IIRC aren't "les deux-points" space
> > padded in French? As in, you've corrected the correct versions?
>
> I thought so too, but it seems from translations of other chapters and
> some edits to this chapter after I sent it to be committed, that
> convention is not to put spaces before them. I just removed the three
> spaces that had not been removed previously, but pretty obviously should
> have been. :-)
>
The spaces (non-breaking space for a colon) should be added during the
conversion from SGML to the final format (if the stylesheet is correct,
etc.) and should not be present in the source code. In french
there are many different spaces, it'd be very painful/difficult to add
them in the source code, it's the stylesheet job. The same principle is
used when you type a LaTeX document: you don't have to worry about
spaces if you added \usepackage[frenchb]{babel} for example.
I missed these spaces before the check-in.
Regarding the rendering of the French, last time I really looked at it
there was issues but it was about 10 years ago... and no time to go
further.
--
Marc
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