On 10/24/2014 07:33 AM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014, at 04:49, JWP wrote:
>> 33% of message lines terminated with a period/full stop.
>
> You mean 33% of hwclock messages, or 33% of util-linux messages?
hwclock
>
>> This is unsightly and difficult to read.
>
> Ehm... I would think the lack of periods would make things
> more difficult to read.
Agreed. However, having 2/3 of the messages without and 1/3 with
makes no sense at all. I am happy to use whatever the project
chooses. Looking at existing hwclock code, boilerplate.c and
howto-usage-function.txt it would appear that not using periods
is the current standard?
>
>> - ("The value of the --date option is not a valid date.\n"
>> - "In particular, it contains quotation marks."));
>> + ("The value of the --date option is not a valid date\n"
>> + "In particular, it contains quotation marks"));
>
> This is ugly. Two lines of text and it's unclear that the first
> sentence ends at the end of the line. If you absolutely want
> to get rid of the period, put a semicolon after "valid date" and
> lowercase "in particular".
That would not make sense to me. Either we use punctuation or we don't.
I am no grammar expert, but if two sentences was originally correct then
it should still be correct.
>
> [...]
>
> All just cosmetic changes, invalidating all the translations.
> Not nice.
My sincere oligopolies to translators, but hwclock is slated for refactoring
and I expect many message changes will be included. Hopefully, the changes
will include improving things for translators.
>
> Benno
>
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