On 2010/11/1 Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting David Prévot:
>
>> I have two ideas of quirty fix for this one: either translate “None.” to
>> “Sans.” in French, or add in the source file some invisible (non-break)
>> space at the end of the one that doesn't have the same gender (at least
>> in French).
>
> Actually, in apt, the problem has been solved at the source by
> dropping the two offendign sections, which are not very relevant anyway.:-)
>
>>
>> I already noticed a similar problem (in the maint-guide) I had to solve
>> the second way, but wonder if it could be possible to force po4a to
>> propose a different translation for the same string, using for example a
>> tag (something similar to the “.if !'po4a'hide'” trick in roff).
>
> When I mentioned this problem during his po4a talk at Paris
> miniDebConf, Denis suggested that somethign similar to what is
> possible with po-debconf could be done (bracketed comments in the
> original string).

Right, but I changed my mind.  Po-debconf can use bracketed comments
because debconf templates are processed by a program, whereas nroff
documents are unmodified.  Thus I do not know how to solve that
problem for now.

Denis



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