[MPlayer-DOCS] mencoder again!

Dmitry Baryshkov mitya at school.ioffe.ru
Sat Jan 3 21:03:28 CET 2004


Hello,

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> > I'm translator and yeah, it's a lot of work. Not only because I should
> > or not translate the intra <replaceable> tags, but also for add the
> > tags. However when the tags are in the correct place and are for better,
> > it's ok to add it I think.
> 
> But i'd have to translate translateable things between <screen> tags, right ?
> <replaceable> tags only makes you sure that you can translate it.
> I think that is only purpose of these tags, beside text between these tags is italic in HTML.

IMHO, italic text is their purpose. It's a way to tell user, that
he/she/it MUST replace this part of the MPlayer usage example.

> 
> As I said i didn't invented them, and i'm not authorised to force anything. But it is/was messy in 
> *.xml files because <replaceable> tags were in some places and weren't in other places were they should be.
> 
> And I'm translator too and i think these tags doesn't do any harm to us.

If we suppose, that such tags make harm, we should remove all formatting
tags and end up with plain text documentation :)

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With best wishes
Dmitry Baryshkov




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