[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.1145,1.1146

[Loren Merritt]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, The Wanderer wrote:
> Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
>> CVS change done by Diego Biurrun CVS
>> 
>> Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/man/en
>> In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv17184/DOCS/man/en
>> 
>> Modified Files:
>> 	mplayer.1 Log Message:
>> Clarify subtitle alignment behavior.
>
>> -Align at top (original behavior).
>> +Align subtitle top edge (original behavior).
>
> I'm not sure this is any clearer, actually. While the old phrasing would
> indeed have given me an inaccurate idea of what was meant, the current
> phrasing gives me no usable information at all; it says that pressing
> the key will align the subtitle top edge, but it does not say *what* it
> will align that edge to.
>
> I'm not entirely satiefied with it, but perhaps "Align subtitles to the
> top edge of their position" or the like might be clear (if not
> completely smooth English)?

How about
"Treats -subpos as the position of the top edge of the subtitle."

--Loren Merritt