New system-config-printer

[Thomas Canniot]

Le vendredi 23 juin 2006 à 22:15 +0100, David a écrit :
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
> >On Wednesday 28 June 2006 21:08, Thomas Canniot wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I'm translating system-config-printer and I think that some strings can
> >>be improved.
> >>
> >>For example, I had a lot of difficulties to translate the strings
> >>"Banner", "Starting Banner" and "Ending Banner". In fact, it seems that
> >>banner is not properly used here according to my Collins Cobuild
> >>Dictionnary.
> >>
> >>However, I don't have an alternative to suggest.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >'Banner' is the name that has been used for many years to describe the pages 
> >printed before and after a print job in a multi-user environment.  I think it 
> >is about 20 years since I first heard it used in that way.
> >
> >Anne
> >  
> >
> Yes I agree with your description of Banner.  As far as I remember this 
> was a throughback to the days of massive line flow print jobs where 
> banner pages identified information about the print job that followed - 
> this could amount to many hundreds or even thousands of pages.  This was 
> relevant when one printer was hsared between many users but I dont ever 
> recall having found a use for it on A4 print jobs so maybe it could now 
> be deleted????
> 
> Ah the memories come flooding back!!!
> 
> D
> 

Thanks a lot for your clues, that helped me to understand what a Banner
was. A definition can be found here :
http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/b/banner.html

However, the lpr man pages are not translated in French *yet*. I thougth
about a translation with a friend of mine and found a better translation
that the one I found.

Regards,


-- 
Thomas Canniot
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasCanniot
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