Transifex string corrections #2 (double spaces)

• Jan 1, 2019 - 17:11
Reported version
3.0
Type
Wording/Translation
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

The following 5 strings have 7 double spaces which they should not have, indicated with double #

The balance between the RMS and peak envelope followers. RMS is generally better for subtle musical compression and##peak is better for heavier, fast compression and percussion.

Vertical##grid:

MuseScore does not export MP3 files directly, but instead uses the freely available LAME library.##You must obtain %1 separately (for details check the handbook), and then locate the file for MuseScore.

Warning: You used the same CoreMIDI IAC bus for input and output.##This will cause problematic loopback, whereby MuseScore's output MIDI messages will be sent back to MuseScore as input, causing confusion.##To avoid this problem, access Audio MIDI Setup via Spotlight to create a dedicated virtual port for MuseScore's MIDI output, restart MuseScore, return to Preferences, and select your new virtual port for MuseScore's MIDI output.##Other programs may then use that dedicated virtual port to receive MuseScore's MIDI output.

Attention: Any changes on this page require a restart of MuseScore.##Precise MIDI output timing is only possible via JACK.


Comments

The double space between 2 sentence is an English speciality and as such correct. Not so those intra-sentence double spaces though

This reduces the issue to two strings (and the need to add one space):

  • The balance between the RMS and peak envelope followers.##RMS is generally better for subtle musical compression and##peak is better for heavier, fast compression and percussion.
  • Vertical##grid:

We can certainly do away with those spaces, I don't need nor like them ;-)
But there had been heated discussions about them in that past.

5 of the 7 double spaces are between sentences (from 3 strings). I found 12-13 strings that have a single space between sentences
grep ".*. ." $IF
(I had to scan the output manually since this matches 69 strings of which the majority are for abbreviations. The difference between an abbreviation single space after dot versus double space after end of sentence full stop is the only advantage IMHO)

That makes these 3 strings in my opinion a mere oversight.

Whatever we do, we need to make it consistent. I will document it as part of our style guide.
Also, if it (the standard) is good enough for our strings, it is also good enough for our documentation / website.

Status PR created fixed

Fixed in branch master, commit a4c491bd2a

fix #281028, fix #280842, fix #280470, fix #281369 and some more text fixes

* Change sharps, flats and naturals to their unicode counterparts
* Fix #281028: remove superfluos double spaces
* Add missing "the"
* Fix #280842: change [Tablature] to (Tablature) for instruments
* fix #280470: Inconsistent reference to menu entry navigation
* Translate MusicXML import error message prefix
see https://musescore.org/en/node/281133
* Improve message on importing pre-3.0 scores
and also enabling it for pre-2.0 scores
* Fix #281369: Ottava bassa shows as "8vb", while 15ma and 22ma is used
for alta and bassa
see also PR #4547
Clefs were having the same issue, so changed those too
* Improve one text in Preferences > I/O and remove another
as that is no longer true
* Yet another ellipsis

Fixed in branch master, commit a4c491bd2a

fix #281028, fix #280842, fix #280470, fix #281369 and some more text fixes

* Change sharps, flats and naturals to their unicode counterparts
* Fix #281028: remove superfluos double spaces
* Add missing "the"
* Fix #280842: change [Tablature] to (Tablature) for instruments
* fix #280470: Inconsistent reference to menu entry navigation
* Translate MusicXML import error message prefix
see https://musescore.org/en/node/281133
* Improve message on importing pre-3.0 scores
and also enabling it for pre-2.0 scores
* Fix #281369: Ottava bassa shows as "8vb", while 15ma and 22ma is used
for alta and bassa
see also PR #4547
Clefs were having the same issue, so changed those too
* Improve one text in Preferences > I/O and remove another
as that is no longer true
* Yet another ellipsis