Hello. Peter, I understand your suggestion, but since these are properly localized user-friendly books of 200+ pages there is no need to leave dates in a technical format. I simply ask not to complicate localization with automating display of dates. The translation of month names in proper form is the simplest of l10n tasks ;)
Lp, m. V V ned., 5. jul. 2020 ob 09:56 je oseba Peter Schofield <[email protected]> napisala: > Hello Jean and Martin > > The simple solution on dates is to use the internationally recognised date > format YYYY-MM-DD. That way there is no need to worry about translation of > month names. Having worked with multiple languages YYYY-MM-DD works very > well. > > Regards > Peter Schofield > [email protected] > > > > > On 5 Jul 2020, at 09:34, Martin Srebotnjak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, Jean, > > > > I have one request: > > please remove date fields for month of publication (page 2): languages > with > > cases are not supported properly in LO and LO does not properly adjust > > month names (e.g. in Slovenian, LO replaces "January" with nominative > > "januar", but in this sentence it should be genitive "januarja", like > "12. > > januarja 2020"; as this is a field - editing it later is also cumbersome > > and it actually brings us to manually deleting the fields and retyping > the > > sentence). > > So, for the sake of l10n into languages with cases (like Slavic languages > > etc.) please omit month field names and replace them with normal words > that > > can easily be properly translated (in OmegaT, for example) as simple > > strings. > > > > BTW, why is the logo on the manual cover sub-titled as "Community > Edition" > > - why is "Community Edtion" string required here? Can this string be > > localized? Can a l10n team replace the logo with "only" basic LO logo in > > its localized edition? Or remove the logo? Probably yes. > > > > Thanks, > > m. > > > > V V ned., 5. jul. 2020 ob 02:35 je oseba Jean Weber <[email protected] > > > > napisala: > > > >> I have now updated the draft v7 chapter template from comments by > >> several team members in an earlier discussion, and I have replaced the > >> file named LibreOffice_7.x_Template_JHW.ott in the English > > >> Contributors Resources folder in NextCloud. > >> > >> > https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/apps/files/?dir=/LibreOffice%20Documentation/English/Contributor%20Resources&fileid=81380 > >> > >> Direct shared link: > >> https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/yLJCPaqqoTSzGz3 > >> > >> Please try it out and see if you find any errors or omissions. > >> > >> When we agree to use this or another variation of the template, and > >> Olivier approves it, we'll need to change the filename to remove my > >> initials. > >> > >> Regards, Jean > >> > >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 6:07 AM Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> I wasn’t at the meeting, but I can say that the template is not ready > to > >> use - even if everyone says they accept my version, I need to do a bit > of > >> tidying up before it’s good to go. > >>> > >>> Jean > >>> > >>> On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 19:42 Steve (GMail) <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hi Olivier, > >>>> > >>>> For those of us who did not attend the meeting, please could you > >>>> summarize the status with regards to the 7.0 template? Is the template > >>>> ready for us to apply to our 7.0 guide files? > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> > >>>> Steve > >> > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: > [email protected] > >> Problems? > >> https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > >> Posting guidelines + more: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > >> List archive: > https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > >> Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > >> > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: > [email protected] > > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
