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[Gabor Kelemen <kelemeng@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Daniel

You can split these strings in smaller pieces, by adding lines containing a space and a dot only, see: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Description
So this:

PURPOSE:
    This test will test display rotation
STEPS:
    1. Open the Displays application
    2. Select a new rotation value from the dropdown list
    3. Click on Apply
(snip)

Could become this:

PURPOSE:
 .
    This test will test display rotation
. 
STEPS:
. 
    1. Open the Displays application
. 
    2. Select a new rotation value from the dropdown list
. 
    3. Click on Apply

This would fit perfectly for us, but:
- you would need to take special care to remove the empty lines, which will show up in the place of the "space+full stop" lines. 
- the problem I reported in the comments 6 and 7 of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+bug/740146 might still be around. Using one big description string avoids it, but switching back to multiple smaller chunks might expose it again, which would be worse than translating a few duplicate strings. Had no time to check this yet.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/916096

Title:
  Checkbox requires a lot of translator work

Status in Checkbox System Testing:
  Incomplete
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  New

Bug description:
  Checbox strings are currently made in a way which required a lot of
  extra effort/ time from trasnlators than it could:

  There are many long strings of this type:

  PURPOSE:
      This test will test display rotation
  STEPS:
      1. Open the Displays application
      2. Select a new rotation value from the dropdown list
      3. Click on Apply
      4. Click on Restore Previous Configuration
      5. Click on Apply
      6. Repeat 2-5 for different rotation values
  VERIFICATION:
      Did the display rotation change as expected?

   Consequentially translators need to translate strings PURPOSE, STEPS
  and VERIFICATION tens of times. Many other strings could also be
  reused. For example "Click on Apply" or "Click "Test"" appear very
  often. "Click on the bluetooth icon in menu bar" appears for almost
  all bluetooth tests and so on. This not only required more work from
  translators but also makes them less motivated as they need to
  translate the same strings over and over again within a short span.

  If longer strings would be split up into smaller ones work load for
  translators could decrease required translator's work substantially
  (in my opinion by about 30-40%).

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