Re: Parentheses and final stops

thanks Danilo!

On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 1:23 AM Danilo G. Baio <dbaio@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 09:14:45PM +0200, Rodrigo G. López wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I was wondering about the convention regarding
> > final stops that are part of a parenthesized sentence.
> > I'm inclined to follow Strunk's "put it before the
> > closing parenthesis", but the Weblate editor
> > complains about a "Mismatched final stop".
> >
> > What should I do?
>
> Hi Rodrigo.
>
> Weblate has plenty of Quality checks [1], and 'Mismatched full stop' [2]
> is one.
> It always tries to match translations with the source string. Depending
> on the language, it's not always right, and sometimes you can ignore the
> alert.
>
> When translating, I recommend you follow the structure same as the
> source string, unless when it doesn't make sense in your language.
>
> And for all improvements/fixes you may find for the source string, one
> advice is to save it for later (after translating the document, chapter,
> etc.) and then submit everything you found together. And then, after
> committing your patch, fix the translation because Weblate will mark
> strings changed for review.
>
> Submitting improvements/fixes to the original documents is a fun part of
> translations. =)
>
> Regards.
>
> 1 - https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/user/checks.html#quality-checks
> 2 - https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/user/checks.html#mismatched-full-stop
> --
> Danilo G. Baio (dbaio)