Noob questions

[tekelili]

Hi, I am learning to prepare an add on to be translated. I learned to use predefined gettext files like #wenoth-units, but I have doubts about if they can be used to translate strings like:

_"ranged drain"
_"melee markaman"
_"forest movement"
_"Poison" (the initial cap gives me problems)

Thanks in advance for help.

[GunChleoc]

The initial cap shouldn't be a problem. Gettext doesn't really care, except for that _"poison" and _"Poison" are two different strings.

I don't know how the textdomain for add-ons is defined and which script collects the strings for translation. Maybe looking at a similar add on will help.

[zookeeper]

I don't know what you're asking exactly.

If you have this:

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#textdomain wesnoth-units
_"Troll"
#textdomain wesnoth-mytextdomain
_"Orc"

Then the translation for "Troll" will be taken from #wesnoth-units, and the translation for "Orc" (and any subsequent strings) from #wesnoth-mytextdomain. There's nothing more to it than that.

EDIT: Added the missing "textdomain"s to the example...

[Adamant14]

It's not an answer to your question, but I guess 'markaman' should be 'marksman', right?

[tekelili]

I don't know what you're asking exactly.

If you have this:

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#textdomain wesnoth-units
_"Troll"
#textdomain wesnoth-mytextdomain
_"Orc"

Then the translation for "Troll" will be taken from #wesnoth-units, and the translation for "Orc" (and any subsequent strings) from #wesnoth-mytextdomain. There's nothing more to it than that.

EDIT: Added the missing "textdomain"s to the example...

I am already usin #textdomain wesnoth-units correctly for tranlate units names; my main doubt was that I was using "ranged drain" to indicate that unit gains drain to all attacks range ranged (wich I dont know if is the best English way to write it, btw). In my language (Spanish), the order of words would change in translation, so I imagine I can´t translate separately each word, so have doubts if is there a translation for the whole text.

And sorry for write wrong marksman

[Dugi]

The translation translates whole strings, not word-by-word.

[tekelili]

The initial cap shouldn't be a problem. Gettext doesn't really care, except for that _"poison" and _"Poison" are two different strings.

I don't know how the textdomain for add-ons is defined and which script collects the strings for translation. Maybe looking at a similar add on will help.

I am getting translated "Fearless", "Healthy" and "Poison" (that´s all). But I am not getting translated a lot of other abilities like "Teleport"... while I can get translated "teleport"

[GunChleoc]

Ths means that "teleport" has been translated in the text domain you chose and "Teleport" hasn't. For the translation system, they are two completely different strings.

[SkyOne]

I am not sure your problem exactly, but you may need to take a look this file?

wesnoth-help-esp.zip

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You can download all others here on this forum to take a look.

[tekelili]

One last question, if I have the same string writed several times in my add on, would define a macro for that string become translators work easier, or it doesn´t matters and would be an useless effort?

[zookeeper]

It doesn't matter. You can use the same string as many times as you want inside the same textdomain and it'll still show up only once to translators.

[tekelili]

My campaign is under development and will have changes in flavor text, so I guess is not good idea upload it as translatable. However I would like translate myself some of the "info" text to Spanish and French. I downloaded Poedit and gettext, but understand how to create a po file is beyond my skills/time available. In case it was a few minutes task... could someone very kindly create es and fr po-files for me?

[trewe]

Here you have.

Two notes: never have filenames containing spaces (there is a file called "Read me.txt", rename that) and the name of the textdomain should be prefixed by 'wesnoth-'.

[tekelili]

Thanks a lot trewe, I will follow your advises

[tekelili]

In my noobinesh i thought all I needed was a po file to have a translation working... But I have translated 1 string in po file to test and copied it in my_campaign/translations/es/LC_MESSAGES without get it translated in game. Do I have skiped some basic steps to have translation working or is my mistake more subtle?

Of course I have this in _main

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[textdomain]
    name="wesnoth-World_Conquest_tek_translated"
    path="data/add-ons/World_Conquest_tek_translated/translations"
[/textdomain]

And I guess I declared well text domains as I got mainline translations working.