[publican-list] 1.99 testing -- Translations of footnotes not appearing

[Jeff Fearn]

This is a not deliberate. Maybe it was affected by the indexterm mods?
Can you test with a build from the 1.6 branch? It probably behaves the
same way.

Cheers, Jeff.

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 09:25 +1000, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
> Hey Jeff, something seems to be going wrong with strings that contain 
> <footnotes> when I build translated versions of books with 1.99.
> 
> During POT generation, footnotes are pulled out into their own entries 
> in PO files, thus:
> 
> <para>
>          This is a test paragraph <footnote><para>and this is a 
> footnote</para></footnote>
> </para>
> 
> becomes
> 
> #. Tag: para
> #, no-c-format
> msgid "This is a test paragraph <footnote></footnote>"
> msgstr "Dies ist ein Test Absatz <footnote></footnote>"
> 
> #. Tag: para
> #, no-c-format
> msgid "and this is a footnote"
> msgstr "und dies ist eine Fußnote"
> 
> Is this by design?  I think this treatment might make translation 
> easier, especially where footnotes appear in the middle of strings.
> 
> However, whether by design or not, when I build a book with a 
> translation like this with 1.99.t84, Publican leaves the footnote (and 
> the paragraph that contained it) in English.
> 
> This problem isn't in 1.6.3, which just leaves footnotes in place in the 
> msgid:
> 
> #. Tag: para
> #, no-c-format
> msgid "This is a test paragraph <footnote><para>and this is a 
> footnote</para></footnote>"
> msgstr ""
> 
> Cheers
> Rudi
> 
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