From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Karl Berry via RT" Subject: Re: [gnu.org #881181] Re: [gnu.org #881518] Re: Package synopses and blurbs translation Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:25:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <201401102225.s0AMPRqO014741@freefriends.org> Reply-To: web-translators@gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59433) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1kWv-0007PQ-En for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:26:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1kWq-0000Zf-Uc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:26:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201401102225.s0AMPRqO014741@freefriends.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: john@darrington.wattle.id.au, ludo@gnu.org Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, bug-womb@gnu.org I thought you guys didn't want these hypothetical TP translators to see HTML. If you do, fine, we can make the original be HTML, at least as far as the internal text goes, which is the only concern here afaik. Brandon and I wrote the blurbs in plain text simply because it seemed natural; everything else we do starts with plain text, and there seemed no reason to do otherwise. Then I wrote gm-generate.pl to add HTML boilerplate junk and convert the obvious things into HTML as needed because that's how the text was needed on the web site. It all seems far more trivial to me than this thread would imply. Whatever, k