Hi Dave,

Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Ping!  :-)
>>
> I think I was waiting for an explanation

You didn’t ask though, did you?  ;-)

> of the doc string rules for translation, and why they seem to be
> different from what gettext say in terms of placeholders in format
> strings.  I think that needs documenting anyhow.

In po/packages/Makevars, we define only two keywords for translatable
strings: ‘synopsis’ and ‘description’.  Thus, xgettext will extract this
string:

  (synopsis "This is translatable")

but it will not extract this:

  (synopsis (string-append "This is " "not translatable"))

I’ve added a note in the manual (below).

HTH,
Ludo’.