[Qgis-tr] Translation of interface HTML help strings, do I need to keep all the breaklines?

[Alexandre Neto]

Hello Richard,

thanks for your fast answer. I'm talking about normal linebreaks, the one
you insert by pressing Enter.

Some are in the middle of a sentence without a very clear idea why. After
the translation it's not always possible to keep the linebreak between the
same words.

I think that probably those linebreak have no effect in the end result, but
I just wanted to make sure.

Here an example, I have part of a string like this:

<p>A "delimited text file" contains data in which each record
> starts on a new line, and ⏎
> is split into fields by a delimiter such as a comma. ⏎
> This type of file is commonly exported from spreadsheets (for example CSV
> files) or databases. ⏎
> Typically the first line of a delimited text file contains the names of
> the fields. ⏎
> </p>⏎


And I'm not sure If there is any reason for keeping the break between
"...new line, and " & "is split into..."

thanks,

Alexandre Neto


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>
wrote:

> On 16-06-14 12:56, Alexandre Neto wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how important is to keep the "break line characters"
> > in the html help files during translation.
> >
> > In the end of a sentence I don't have any doubts, but sometimes in the
> > middle it sounds weird to keep some breaklines, knowing that html should
> > take care of that depending on the size of the users help window.
>
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> What do you mean by "break line characters", to you mean "<br/>" in
> html? Or "\n" aka normal linebreaks in a string?
>
> Because I think the second one are indeed ignored IF the text area will
> become html (not always used).
>
> In the first case I think the only way to know is to have a look into
> the dialog/widget that the text is part of.  I could think about an
> option that a dev wants to add some whitespace or newlines in between
> two chunks of text.
>
> Sorry I do not have a clearer answer, maybe somebody else can?
> Maybe better ask this on the dev list, because those are the people who
> write the actual source strings...
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
>
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