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[Justas <justas@xxxxxx>]

Hey,

On 04/15/2011 10:57 PM, Alan Elkner wrote:
> Tom,
>
> I didn't use a sentence because I was struggling with punctuation,
> mostly commas, when one says, for example,  "in term, Term1, for
> course, Math.'  I believe it is the convention in English to use the
> commas like that, but then again, I'm not an expert.  Anyway, other
> languages may have different conventions, commas or not, so what can
> one do to create strings that are translatable and still make sense
> when broken up and put back together.  I guess I can solve this by
> creating the message string in python, using a translatable format
> string.  I was just trying to do more in the page template as Justas
> had suggested, but page templates don't have translatable format
> strings. I'll just do it in python.

  Just a short note - tal does allow that.

<div 18n:translate="">
    Click "Extend" to create a linked section in term
    "<tal:block i18n:name="from_term_title" content="term/@@title" />"
    containing the students and instructors from section
    "<tal:block i18n:name="section_title" content="section/@@title" />"
    in term
    "<tal:block i18n:name="to_term_title" content="other_term/@@title" />"
</div>

  If you run make compile-translations, you'll see a message in 
schooltool.pot (this is what our translators see):

  Click "Extend" to create a linked section in term ${from_term_title} 
containing the students and instructors from section ${section_title} in 
term ${to_term_title}.

Cheers,
Justas