[Po4a-devel] Bug#646173: Typos found while translating the po4a documentation into German

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello David,
first of all a happy new year.

Next round of typos / suggestions for improvement:
a) doc/po4a.7.pod:480
I'm not sure I understand the last sentence correctly. 
... when there is no empty line before the =item
line and the content of the item.

Empty line *before* =item or *between* =item and the content of the item
(or both)?

And the "simpler" stuff:
Index: doc/po4a.7.pod
===================================================================
--- doc/po4a.7.pod      (Revision 2523)
+++ doc/po4a.7.pod      (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -463,9 +463,9 @@
 =item -

 If you changed the structure a bit (to merge two paragraphs, or split
-another one), undo those changes. If there is issues in the original, you
-should inform the original author. Fixing them in your translation only fix
-it for a part of the community. And moreover, it's impossible when using
+another one), undo those changes. If there are issues in the original, you
+should inform the original author. Fixing them in your translation only fixes
+them for a part of the community. And moreover, it's impossible when using
 po4a ;)

 =item -
@@ -502,11 +502,11 @@
 the document. In that case, no new entry is created in the PO file, but a
 new reference is added to the existing one instead.

-So, when the same paragraph appears twice in the original but are not
+So, when the same paragraph appears twice in the original but both are not
 translated in the exact same way each time, you will get the feeling that a
 paragraph of the original disappeared. Just kill the new translation. If you
 prefer to kill the first translation instead when it was actually better,
-remove the second one from where it is and put it in place of the first one.
+remove the second one from where it is and put the first one in place of the second one.

 In the contrary, if two similar but different paragraphs were translated in the
 exact same way, you will get the feeling that a paragraph of the translation
@@ -547,12 +547,12 @@
 to add a section about the translation itself, listing contributors and
 explaining how to report bug against the translation.

-Addendum must be provided as a separate file. The first line constitutes a
+An addendum must be provided as a separate file. The first line constitutes a
 header indicating where in the produced document they should be placed. The
 rest of the addendum file will be added verbatim at the determined position of
 the resulting document.

-The header have a pretty rigid syntax: It must begin with the string
+The header has a pretty rigid syntax: It must begin with the string
 B<PO4A-HEADER:>, followed by a semi-colon (B<;>) separated list of I<key>B<=>I<value>
 fields. White spaces ARE important. Note that you cannot use the semi-colon
 char (B<;>) in the value, and that quoting it doesn't help.


For me, I will now cease to work on po4a translation for now. I talked with 
another German translator and he'll probably take over for the
remaining 30%, but still it would be a good time for an upload (also
for the web page), hint, hint. 

If possible, however, I'll take care of the long term (whatever this
means) maintaince of the German translation.

Greetings

             Helge
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