"About this document" section could be shared across the ubuntu-docs templates
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs
The translation templates for ubuntu-docs: https:/
For an example, compare these pages:
https:/
https:/
Sometimes, this results in different translations across different parts of ubuntu-docs and is generally inconsistent for a translator - rosetta always shows this section first.
I propose separating "About this document" section into a different XML-file with its own translation template, and including it to the documentation files with XInclude (or similar mechanism).
| Matthew East (mdke) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubuntu-docs: | |
| status: | New → Won't Fix |
I can't think of any easy way to implement this suggestion unfortunately. Each "About this document" section is slightly different because it contains the document's title and depends on whether the document is an <article> or a <book>. So we need to use an entity to import the legal and copyright information into each document.
However, I don't think it's a serious bug because once a translation team has translated the strings once for one template, Rosetta will suggest using the same translation each time the string reappears in another template, so as long as translators accept that suggestion (and there is no reason not to), then there won't be any inconsistency.
For that reason I'll close the bug, although please reopen it if I've missed something that makes the bug more serious than I think.