Re: # comments in the PO files

[Benno Schulenberg]

On 2015-09-28 13:00, Federico Bruni wrote:
> Il giorno lun 28 set 2015 alle 12:19, Benno Schulenberg 
> <address@hidden> ha scritto:
>> No, it's not strange: I put those comments there.  :)
> 
> That's what I thought (you or Jan), but then I don't understand why
> you opened this thread :)

Well, you started the thread; I just hijacked it.  :)
For the reason, see below.

>> My "# " comments are hints for the 
>> maintainers to improve something.
> 
> for the translation maintainers.. ok

No, for the Lilypond maintainers.  They could improve the source.
For example:

# FIXME: this and next two should be one
msgid "Use the `alignment-offsets' sub-property of\n"
msgid "NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-system-details\n"
msgid "to set fixed distances between staves.\n"

This means, the above three msgids should be a single msgid, one string.

So, in the source it should not say:

        stderr_write (_ ("Use the `alignment-offsets' sub-property of\n"))
        stderr_write (_ ("NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-system-details\n"))
        stderr_write (_ ("to set fixed distances between staves.\n"))

but:

        stderr_write (_ ("Use the `alignment-offsets' sub-property of\n"
                         "NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-system-details\n"
                         "to set fixed distances between staves.\n"))

And maybe dropping the first \n too.

Benno