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[Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> > One little nuisance in our LaunchpadForms is that radio button labels
> > can be entire paragraphs, yet our CSS doesn't allow the browser to
> > line-break them.  It just says "label { white-space: nowrap }".
> It is rarely appropriate for form labels to wrap to multiple lines. That
> said, it is even less appropriate for pages to scroll horizontally.
In this case, I wonder if it's even right that all of this text goes 
into labels.  A brief label plus optional explanation would be ideal.

> "I would rather: I agree to licence all my translations in Launchpad
> using the BSD licence." should be "I would rather: License all my
> translations in Launchpad under the BSD licence".
How about this?

I would rather:

(*) License all my translations in Launchpad under the BSD licence.
( ) Not make translations in Launchpad.

(Should I infer from your examples that I should use "license" as the 
verb and "licence" as the noun?  Our existing text uses "licence" for both).
(Also... Capitalize after colon?  As I recall a very knowledgeable 
English editor once changed that in an article I wrote.  That was in 
1999 though, so I may be mistaken; and he was over twice my age at the 
time so things may have changed since he studied the language.)

Jeroen