[dapper] xreflabel considered harmful

Jonathan Jesse jjesse at iserv.net
Sat Apr 15 15:14:32 UTC 2006


Matt,

As I am at my in-laws who are basically !internet could you please check
the about-kubuntu and release notes for me?

Thanks,

JOnathan
> Hi all,
>
> I've just realised (thanks to a translator pointing it out) that the
> presence of xreflabel in section tags in the documents is a bad thing
> for translations: this doesn't get translated and so all the <xref
> linkend> links will have English text. If we remove all instances of
> xreflabel, all will be well, and the links will have translated text.
>
> To give an example of the changes that need to be made:
>
> <sect1 id="codecs" xreflabel="Multimedia Codecs" status="complete">
>
> Will become:
>
> <sect1 id="codecs" status="complete">
>
> Please could each document maintainer grep through the source and remove
> all of these? I've done it for the Ubuntu Desktop Guide, and I'll do
> About Ubuntu too.
>
> You don't need to generate new pots, as these are not in the pot files
> anyway.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matt
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