| From: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql: new help related to variables are not too readable |
| Date: | 2017-09-18 17:59:48 |
| Message-ID: | CAFj8pRC3hn5_vP2gByR7Sv6fb5QvDsv8M=DPDW9RenTrf8L=Lg@mail.gmail.com |
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2017-09-18 11:44 GMT+02:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>:
> Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
> > I am looking on man pagers - and there are very well readable
> >
> > The rules are simply - when some variables are short - less than 6 chars,
> > then it description and label are on same line. Between items are empty
> > line
>
> I was having a similar idea. I'm not sure how many lines we would save
> that way, but it seems to me we could use a slightly longer threshold --
> say 8 chars before we cause a newline and wrap.
>
> Maybe we need to come up with guidelines for translators, also. As
> somebody noted, I've always gone to some trouble to produce translate
> output that preserves the original's constraints; I don't see any reason
> forother translations to behave differently.
>
> (By all means, if we add entry-separating newlines, let's not put them
> as part of the translatable string.)
>
+1
Pavel
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> Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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