Re: [Tails-l10n] Installation Assistant: feedback

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Author: spriver
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To: Tails localization discussion
Old-Topics: Re: [Tails-l10n] (pull)[de] Installation Assistant: Other Linux
Subject: Re: [Tails-l10n] Installation Assistant: feedback
Hi,
a few things I noticed while translating:


> And thanks for starting the work on the assistant. I'm really
> interested in feedback from you, especially if you think that the
> source can be adjusted to make your work easier or if you think we
> should document better or add comments on how to translate this.


The amount of inline pages can be confusing sometimes because it can
happen easily that I miss to "translate" (adding .de at the end of it)
them, because they can be mistaken with the pictures/stylesheets.
Maybe this process can be automatized? (adding the corresponding file
extension for each language by default). It's also sort of difficult
to review inline pages, because the page that includes the inline has
also be translated together with it (but I think this is how things
are and I just have to get used to it)

Another thing that could be improved is the "Back" button, it has also
to be translated everytime. Maybe this could be put into another
inline file?
If there's more, I'll let you know! (:

>
> Also, I was wondering why you used a word instead of a number in:
>
> msgid "1 hour to install" msgstr "Eine Stunde zum Installieren"
>
> You are the German translators so it's really up to you and I don't
> want to interfere in your decision, but I was wondering whether
> this was more of a personal choice of style or whether using
> numbers in such context looks weird in German? Different languages
> have different typographic and style convention and I'm interested
> in learning them.
>
> We decided to use numbers in English because here we are in a list
> enumerating needs (facts) and numbers are probably faster to scan
> (for example if you compare the needs between two scenarios) and
> take less space. Also some scenarios require ¼, ½, or 1½ hour.

Since muri already responded to this in a seperate message I won't
answer here. I'm just used to write numbers as words smaller than 12.

Cheers!
spriver