Re: Please avoid unnecessary markup in messages

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Christian Rose <menthos@menthos.com> writes:

> Sure PangoMarkup can be used. But I don't see what's wrong with
> something like this:
> 
> str = g_strdup_printf ("<span weight="bold" size="larger">%s</span>\n\n%s",
>                       _("Primary Text"),
>                       _("More descriptive secondary text"));
> 
> With something like this there is no conflict between translatability
> and the HIG. Personally I also think it's more readable.

If you prefer to have the lines ripped apart so that translators have
to guess that they belong together, that's fine with me.


Salut, Sven