Re: Spanish pondings

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 02:33:05PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
>> On 4 mai 2012, at 14:29, Francisco Vila wrote:
>> 
>> > 734f525 Web-es: Really make Spanish Pondings work.
>> > 278124f Web-es: make Spanish Pondings work.
>> > 
>> > Are those changes too invasive?
>
> Yes.
>
>> I don't think it's a good idea to have translations for
>> pondings.  I'm putting them up in whatever language they're sent
>> to me.  The only two that exist for the moment are in English,
>> but they can certainly be in Spanish, in which case everyone
>> will see them in Spanish.
>
> I agree.  In fact, seeing pondings in other languages could be a
> nice touch and a reminder that lilypond is used internationally.
>
> If you really want a particular piece of news to appear in
> multiple languages, then just send in multiple translations to be
> included in the normal tweets.xml file.  Then they'll appear
> randomly just as any other ponding.  I'd therefore suggest that
> all pieces of news appear in English plus any other applicable
> languages.
>
> Mike, could you push a new ponding about your thing in French?
> Also, could you make the font size slightly smaller?  at the
> moment it's bigger than our "what is lilypond" text.  I'd say it
> should be one or two "notches" smaller.  (interpret "notch" as
> whatever makes sense for web fonts)

Perhaps pondings should specify a language, and then pondings are
filtered through the permitted browser languages (for me, "en, de")
before the random selection is made.  If the filtering results in an
empty set, all pondings are consulted instead.

-- 
David Kastrup