Re: Localizing Tidy [was: automatic generation of quickref.html]

At 11:15 PM +0100 3/23/05, Marc Gueury wrote:
>I have an additional remark about translation.
>
>If you look the code of tidylib, all the strings that are translatable are
>all contained in the localize.c file. In a bad way, I think for some reason
>I will probably explain in another mail. (in short, localize.c contains code
>and strings + there is no way to make a multilingual tidy program).


Tidy and localize.c were not really designed to be multi-lingual, but over
time most of the strings have migrated to localize.c to at least give you a
chance at localizing Tidy.


>Whatever, all the translations and translatable strings are contained
>in that single file. So that, if, for example, somebody wants to
>translate tidy.
>It is quite easy. He just need to change that file. I think that the
>description
>should follow the same principle.


We had some discussions several years ago on the subject of localizing
Tidy, but we couldn't come up with a good cross-platform solution. It is
not a problem to do something that works well for the Windows and Mac OS
platforms, but the closest we came for other platforms was the use of
"gettext".


>Place your code in a new file. But the strings in localize.c.


I would argue the opposite - code in localize.c and strings in something
that is NOT a ".c" file.


>Also, I have additional request: please add an API for tidyLib
>to get help for one parameter only for allowing UI program
>using tidylib to show help about one parameter in a tooltip for example.


Write up a feature request. TidyLib doesn't really have a concept of help,
so I don't think an API is needed - help is implemented in the "tidy"
console program, which IMHO is just a sample application using TidyLib.


>Thanks by advance,
>
>Marc

Regards, Terry





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