Re: Language help

In Spanish you generally capitalize the first letter of the cardinal points
when you refer to its name: Oeste, Este, Norte, Sur. I thing its the same
idea in french.

You use them in lowercase only when you want to express a relative position
(same as in "two miles south of this town"), or use it as an adjective:
latitud norte, viento sur (south wind).... but, you say: el Sur

In a map (or compas rose) is more usual to see the first letter in uppercase


2014-05-15 21:47 GMT+02:00 p Valdés <[email protected]>:

> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_cardinal
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> 2014-05-15 21:46 GMT+02:00 p Valdés <[email protected]>:
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> # français
>>
>> C       1       ouest    O      O
>> C       2       est     E      E
>> C       3       sud      S      S
>> C       4       nord    N      N
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJCRaKsJJdU
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>> 2014-05-15 19:13 GMT+02:00 Paul Wessel <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hi GMT users-
>>>
>>> As you known, GMT has a parameter TIME_LANGUAGE that users can set to
>>> get time-axes annotations in their own language (e.g., Norwegian, Greek).
>>>  We are extending this to compass directions such as printed in plots by
>>> psrose and along every basemap.  For us to implement this we need help from
>>> those of you who know the answers in different languages.  We already have
>>> english, dutch, and spanish covered.  Other languages we are seeking help
>>> with are given by these language files [from share/time]
>>>
>>> br.d            cn2.d   dk.d    fr.d    hi.d    ie.d    is.d    jp.d
>>>  no.d    pt.d    se.d    to.d    uk.d
>>> cn1.d   de.d            eh.d    fi.d    gr.d    hu.d    il.d    it.d
>>>  pl.d    ru.d    sg.d    tr.d
>>>
>>> If you can help with any of these languages, please reply or (even
>>> better) respond to issue # 561 on the GMT issues tracker (
>>> http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/issues/561#change-2324) and upload a file
>>> with the required section.  The new section looks like this (this is from
>>> the Spanish file):
>>>
>>> # es.d
>>> # The following lines give the translation of the 4 major compass
>>> directions (WESN).
>>> # The third column is the name of the compass direction in full
>>> (capitalise if that is common in your language).
>>> # The fourth column is the abbreviation used on the edges of a map for
>>> longitude and latitude (in some languages this can be more than one letter).
>>> # The fifth column is the abbreviation used on on a compass rose (in
>>> some languages this can be more than one letter).
>>> C       1       oeste    O      O
>>> C       2       este     E      E
>>> C       3       sur      S      S
>>> C       4       norte    N      N
>>>
>>> Now, if your language is not even listed in share/time then perhaps you
>>> can help us add it.  Have a look at any of these files and craft one for
>>> your language and submit it.
>>>
>>> Sincerely, the GMT team
>>>
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