[Gretl-users] ok to edit .po files offline now?

[Allin Cottrell]

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> Ok great, I would like to finish the German translation by then, so I
> need to clarify the remaining stuff I didn't understand. I've put
> together a list of what's unclear to me, any help is 
> appreciated...

Thanks for the queries.  A general comment is that for several of 
the strings below, we should probably mark them as not to be 
translated.

I'm thinking of the more technical error messages, which might 
better go to stderr in English, with a more generic and more 
easily translated error string shown in the GUI.  I'll mark these 
as "Don't bother" below, and revise thm out of the .pot file 
before the next release.

I'll skip the ones that Jack has already answered.

> 1) Failed to initalize print struct for loop\n
> apart from typo in English, what's struct?

Don't bother.

>
> 2)             final %11.5f\n (in estimate.c)
> final iteration, value, or what?

Final estimate of rho in Cochrane-Orcutt.  This appears as the 
bottom of a table with heading "ITER       RHO        ESS".

> 3) Failed to add values to print loop\n
> Don't understand "print loop" here

Don't bother.

>
> 4) Freed %s\n
> freed what?

A named object (e.g. "Model 10").  A more verbose statement would 
be: "Freed the object named '%s'".

> 5) Failed to allocate DIB
> what is DIB, and in what way is it allocated

Don't bother.

> 6) Codebook
> what's that?

That's the English shorthand for a document describing the content 
of a database, containing a detailed account of the interpretation 
of the variables.

> 7) Failed to create pixbuf from file
> what's a pixbuf?

Don't bother.

> 8) %s/by %s
> need to know context

There are some tricky spots in translating composite GTK menu
items, and this is one.  The first '%s' will be substituted
by the translation of "/Graphs/Separation" and the second will be 
replaced by the name of a dummy variable.

> 9) Search wrapped
> meaning?

The search process reached the end of the text in the window, and 
started again at the beginning.

>
> 10) PWE

Prais-Winsten Estimator.

> 11)No book or workbook streams found.
> what's a book stream?

Don't bother.

>
> 12) Rescaled-range plot for
> what's the context here again?
>
> 13) inf.
> infinite, infimum or what?

Infinite (as in infinite degrees of freedom).

> 14)    %s: out of bounds for a year?\n
> what's that supposed to mean?

Don't bother.

>
> 15) Daily date to represent week:
> what values can date take here?

I'll need to check that.

>
> 16) scale
> size? magnification? ...

That one too.

>
> 17) Show English help
> where does this appear?

It appears only if there's a translated version of the gretl help 
file available (at present this applies for Italian and Spanish 
only).

>
> 18) Data set is not recognized as a panel.\n
> Please use \"Sample/Set frequency, startobs\".
> -- does this really still reflect the current menu structure?

No, you're right, this needs fixing.

> 19) Offset variable
> meaning?

This is in the context of a Poisson regression.  Please see
'help Poisson'.

> 20) Seasonal
> seasonal dummy, effect, or what?

Sorry, I need to check that.

> 23) Standard automatic analysis
> is the standard analysis automatic or vice versa?

This refers to the default routine performed by TRAMO/SEATS, with 
AR and MA lag orders determined automatically.

Allin Cottrell