Hello Helge, On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 08:35, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 4/19/20 8:47 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Dear manpages maintainers. > > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including manpages) as > > well for a large variety of target languages. > > > > During their work translators notice different possible issues in the > > original (english) man pages. Sometiems this is a straightforward > > typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a convention > > not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the original. > > > > We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at > > least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some > > distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss > > the latest upstream version once a while, so the error might be > > already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately > > if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and > > the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check > > each and every issue. > > > > Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format, > > i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man, > > groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where > > possible), but only an approximation which you need to translate into > > your source format. > > > > Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are > > not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the > > problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify > > them. > > > > I'm now reporting the errors for your project. As requested, each > > issue is sent in an unique mail for easier tracking on your side. If > > future reports should use another channel, please let me know. > > > > ** > > > > The formatting is inconsistent and incomplete: > > > > a) Formatting bold? > > > > msgid "#include E<lt>asm/dsp56k.hE<gt>\n" > > > > > > b) In this string the formatting for dspk56k seems missing: > > "The dsp56k device is a character device with major number 55 and minor " > > "number 0." > > > > > > c) No formatting, italic? > > msgid "/dev/dsp56k" Thanks for checking this! Okay -- somewhere along the way I messed up. I had fixed (1) but not (b) and (c). Fixed now. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
