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Re: texinfo-6.7.91 pretest


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: texinfo-6.7.91 pretest
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:47:30 +0100

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:26 AM Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl> wrote:
>
>
> Op 17-06-2021 om 01:52 schreef Gavin Smith:
> > Thanks, I made these changes.
>
> Oww...  The
>
>   msgid "Try `%s --help' for more information\n
>
> needs a period at the end:
>
>   msgid "Try `%s --help' for more information.\n
>
> so that it is identical to an already existing string.
> That was the intent of my earlier email: to not have
> slightly different forms of basically the same string.

According to the GNU Coding Standards,

"Error messages from interactive programs, and other messages such as
usage messages, should start with a capital letter.  But they should not
end with a period."

However, I don't care about pod2texi enough to spend any more time
worrying about this so I am just going to make the change you suggest.

>
> After that, it would be nice to have a .92 pretest, so that
> translations can be fully up-to-date too.

Yes no problem.



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