[PATCH] [PUSHED] fdo#39468: translate German comments (=> writer)

Tor Lillqvist tml at iki.fi
Mon May 28 06:49:30 PDT 2012


Thank you very much! Pushed. Welcome as a LibreOffice contributor!

A couple of minor requests for you future patches: Please do combine
changes to several files into one patch, easier to handle them that
way... For translation patches, something like half a dozen files per
patch perhaps is ideal?

It is unnecessary to translate comments that we consider pointless,
like the kind that say why (at some point in time) a header was
included.

#include <swundo.hxx>           // fuer die UndoIds

Just remove such comments.

You can also just remove information-free boilerplate function header
comments like:

/*************************************************************************
|*
|*    void SwHistory::Add()
|*
|*
*************************************************************************/

these just waste vertical space, which is the most valuable resource
in a source file;)

And finally,  in comments like:

+                    //JP 20.04.98: Bug 49502 - When a formula is set,
never save
+                    //             the value. It possibly must be recalculated!
+                    //JP 30.07.98: Bug 54295 - Save formulas always in plain
+                    //             text

the initials and dates are of questionable value; we have version
control for changes since 2000. Also, for comments this old, the bug
number is meaningless. So the comment above could be edited into
something like:

+                    // When a formula is set, never save the value.
It possibly must be recalculated.
+                    // Save formulas always in plain text.

(Yeah, the over-enthusiastic use of exclamation marks can also be reduced...)

--tml


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