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Hey - just a note...

I have noticed that the length of labels in Plus! 3 is pretty short. Sometimes the original language uses two or three words to describe something. The labels are often adjusted so that these two words fits perfectly into the label.

Sometimes Danish uses lots of letters to describe a simple english word and at the moment submenus in the light-blue area (like 'Commands & Tags') are hard to translate. Mostly because the Danish word for "Commands" are "Kommandoer" and "Tags" is "Mærker" which does not leave enough space!

There is no way around this problem. Two words cannot be translated into a shoter terms.

I actually think this translation has been more difficult...

I propose that labels with two or three words should leave more space for the translators - it is possible that the english version fits but translating without adequate space gives us no choice but to make it too short (which sometimes seems strange).

// Peter
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05-06-2004 10:21 PM
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Short labels - by Kian on 05-06-2004 at 10:21 PM
RE: Short labels - by Chrono on 05-06-2004 at 10:39 PM
RE: Short labels - by CookieRevised on 05-07-2004 at 12:20 AM
RE: Short labels - by Chrono on 05-07-2004 at 12:22 AM
RE: Short labels - by CookieRevised on 05-07-2004 at 12:37 AM
RE: Short labels - by Patchou on 05-07-2004 at 03:54 AM
RE: Short labels - by Leif on 05-07-2004 at 04:33 AM
RE: Short labels - by Kian on 05-07-2004 at 07:30 AM
RE: Short labels - by CookieRevised on 05-07-2004 at 09:26 AM
RE: RE: Short labels - by Kian on 05-08-2004 at 05:56 PM


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