[Gretl-users] new things, and translations

[Allin Cottrell]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> Just committed the new de.po version, almost finished.
>
> However, some new translation questions:
>
> 1) "Remove extra observations"
> Is that to balance a panel, or what else?

It's for the case where extra 'dummy' observations have been 
added to a data set for the purpose of forecasting out of 
sample, using an autoregressive model.

>
> 2) /Data/_Matrix...  ??
> can't find it in the 8/19 snapshot

It's ifdef'd out of the actual source at present, as being not 
ready yet (it relates to a planned GUI mechanism for defining 
matrices).  Unfortunately gettext doesn't grok the C 
pre-processor so the string still comes through, but you can 
ignore it.

>
> 3) "/Save/_Predicted error variance"
> That's an old one, but is it actually about the forecast error variance
> or really a variance that's predicted (like in ARCH maybe)?

The latter -- it's about saving the fitted value of the error 
variance from a GARCH model.

> 4) %s/By %s ??
> I think I may have asked this already once, but what's the 
> context again?

Graphing using a dummy variable to separate the values:

"/Graphs/Separation/By XXX"

> 5) "Configure"
> ??

It's the label on a button in the model selection dialog.  If 
you check the "robust standard errors" box, the "Configure" 
button next to that option becomes active, enabling you to chose 
the specific HC/HAC variant.

> 6) "Please find the gretl script %s attached."
> Maybe some duplication of this string (also with 'file' instead)?

OK, I see what you mean; I'll see about deleting one of the 
variants.

> In general it would be nice if you could post another snapshot 
> before releasing 1.6.0...

OK, I'll do that shortly.  I'll also update the .pot file again 
in CVS; I've made a few trivial changes relating to moving the 
selector for the random seed.

Allin.