On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:49:15PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > Hi, > > > 3) po4a-normalize sometimes reformat paragraph in a less than optimal > > ways. > > > > 1. and 2. are problematic when reviewing what changes po4a-normalize did, > > though 2. can be mitigated by using diff -ub. 3. cause generated manpages > > to not be acceptable as master version. > > Regarding the differences: > 3) This last point is true. po4a-normalize should not be used to > normalize a man page and use it later as the source. > I don't know if it is idempotent. > Its output is not as beautiful as a man page writen by a human being, > but this is not a goal for po4a. > > So I think this is not a bug. > If you want to see the differences introduced by po4a, you should display > both pages in two terminals. You will find only a few differences (in the > spacing between words and in the hyphenation of words with hyphens), which > I think are minor. > > Unless there is significant difference in the generated man pages, I intend > to close this bug.
Fair enough, but unless po4a point 3. is improved I am not going to use it. Such tools should either respect entirely the original formating, or reformat nicely its output. Any formating improvement po4a might bring will be lost in the English version if I don't use po4a-normalize, so there are little advantage to make them to the translated version anyway. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
