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visigoth@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu writes:

> This sounds like an interesting way to start--I suspect that it would
> be useful after a time to move the English version out to a file as
> well.  So you would have something like:
> 
> (in gnus-art.el, lines around 386:)
> 
> 	(format prompt (if (and gnus-number-of-articles-to-be-saved
>                                 (> gnus number-of-articles-to-be-saved 1))
>                            (format (gnus-get-trans 'these-articles)
>                                    gnus-number-of-articles-to-be-saved)
>                         (gnus-get-trans 'this-article)))
> 
> On the other hand--that's really damned ugly.

Well, even the English versions could be translations from the
strings.  So the source code wouldn't change (except for adding lots
of `gnus-get-trans'es around all the strings), and the first
translation would just be an indentity translation, but afterwards, if
I want to change the English version of the text, I'd have to edit the
English "translation" file.

> And the real problem, unfortunately, is documentation strings.

That's true.  They're difficult to do anything about without changing
the internals somewhat.  Not all that difficult, though -- you just
have to fiddle with the `documentation' function somewhat.  

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen