Bugs item #311647, was changed at 2009-05-03 10:04 by Michael Terry You can respond by visiting: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=410622&aid=31... Status: Open Priority: 3 Submitted By: Michael Terry (mterry-guest) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Allow marking some paragraphs/phrases as not-for-translation Category: None Group: None Resolution: None Initial Comment: It would be nice if I could mark some paragraphs as untranslatable. For example, say I have a docbook flie that lists a number of file paths as part of the documentation. These paths (like ~/.cache) show up to be translated, but I don't want them to be. Maybe some format-specific comment that po4a understands? In the docbook example, the paragraph being preceded by <!-- po4a: ignore --> or something. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michael Terry (mterry-guest) Date: 2010-07-29 14:14 Message: That would be fine. I'd also be interested in similar syntax for man pages too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Denis Barbier (barbier-guest) Date: 2010-07-29 09:39 Message: You are right, that would be nice. The parser can cope with comments only if they are embedded within a paragraph, which means that in XML one has to write <para><!-- Hey translator -->Foo bar</para> to have this comment printed into PO files. One could indeed define special comments, e.g. <para><!-- po4a: ignore -->Foo bar</para> to have a paragraph copied verbatim into translated documents. Note that these comments will not be removed from translated documents, I believe that this is fine. You can test by editing Locale/Po4a/Xml.pm like this: replace if ($translate ne "") by if ($translate ne "" && !(defined($comments) && $comments =~ m/^\s*po4a:\s*ignore/s)) I will commit this change unless you report problems with it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=410622&aid=31...