Re: please cut up help text of xargs into manageable translatable chunks

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 02/08/2013 03:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/08/2013 04:07 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>
>>
>> On February 7, 2013 at 8:20 PM Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013, at 0:12, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>>>   "), _("\
>>>>     -X, --xyz     some text\n\
>>>>   "), _("\
>>>>     -Y            another option with a longer\n\
>>>>                   description message\n\
>>>>   "), _("\
>>>
>>> Hmmm...  To me these intervening lines with '"), _("\' look
>>> distracting.
> 
> It's worth seeing how coreutils does this, for comparison:
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/ls.c#n4714

Guess who made the last change there ... ;-)

Kidding aside, another difference is that secondary lines of
a description are indented by 2 character. I added this to my
new patch.

>> Admitted, but the point was a nice alignment of the description
>> column for options with a wrapped line. That would be harder
>> with such an approach:
>>
>>>   HTL ("  -X, --xyz     some text\n\");
>>>   HTL ("  -Y            another option with a longer\n\
>>>                   description message\n\");
> 
> No, just use C string concatenation to get alignment:
> 
>    HTL ("  -X, --xyz     some text\n");
>    HTL ("  -Y            another option with a longer\n"
>         "                description message\n");

Yes thanks, I've done it in that way - well not exactly, as we
still need the _( ) around the texts to make them find their
way into the *.po files.

The only drawback is that the line length in the code is now
>80 although this doesn't seem to be a hard style limit in
findutils.

Attached is v2.

Have a nice day,
Berny

usage-deparate-descriptions-v2.patch
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