Re: [Po4a-devel] Problems with Docbook/Xml module

Nicolas François <nicolas.francois(a)centraliens.net&gt; (21/10/2005): > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:06:06PM +0200, thomas.huriaux(a)kti.ae.poznan.pl wrote: > > I'm currently trying to use po4a for the aptitude documentation, and > > here are the few problems I have: > > * if there is a comment in a sentence such as > > In the <!-- TODO: <link linkend='secHier'> > > -->hierarchy editor, stores the hierarchy location > > then the result will be: > > msgid "In the" > > msgstr "" > > > > msgid "hierarchy editor, stores the hierarchy location" > > msgstr "" > > Can anyone check the attached patch? > It makes the comments non-breaking, and just removes them from the > paragraphs. It works perfectly, at least for aptitude. Thanks. > > * if there is a footnote, such as > > <para> > > Begining of the sentence > > <footnote><para>footnote text</para></footnote> > > end of the sentence. > > </para> > > then once again it will be divided into three strings: > > msgid "Begining of the sentence" > > msgid "footnote text" > > msgid "end of the sentence." > > > > I'm afraid that for this last problem, there is no easy solution and > > we will have to keep the current situation. > > There must be a way to indicate that the footnote tag should never be > separated from its paragraph. > > However, it is not perfect (because you will want to extract the footnot > if it appear at the end of a paragraph). > > The TeX module uses the following method: if the tag appears at the end of > a bloc, it is extracted, otherwise, we let the tag inlined in the > paragraph. Do you intend to fix it before the next release? I'm waiting to know approximatly how the next release of po4a will be to ask Jean-Luc Coulon to update the French translation of the aptitude documentation in order to detect potential additional problems. It could be better if he works on a "stable" po file.