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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-10-03 14:48:09 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-10-03 17:07:54 +0200
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doc: Explain why synopses/descriptions must be literal strings.
Suggested by Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>. * doc/guix.texi (Synopses and Descriptions): Recommend literal strings.
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@@ -19147,6 +19147,18 @@ Translation Project} so that as many users as possible can read them in
their native language. User interfaces search them and display them in
the language specified by the current locale.
+To allow @command{xgettext} to extract them as translatable strings,
+synopses and descriptions @emph{must be literal strings}. This means
+that you cannot use @code{string-append} or @code{format} to construct
+these strings:
+
+@lisp
+(package
+ ;; @dots{}
+ (synopsis "This is translatable")
+ (description (string-append "This is " "*not*" " translatable.")))
+@end lisp
+
Translation is a lot of work so, as a packager, please pay even more
attention to your synopses and descriptions as every change may entail
additional work for translators. In order to help them, it is possible