General translation guidelines

Please make sure you respect the following rules when translating Seamly:

• If you are not sure about the translation of a particular string, don't validate it and keep it "unfinished".

• Do take into account the nature of the applications and use translations appropriate for sewing and garment industry CAD.

• Make sure your translation is correct in the particular context it appears in the software.

• Make sure you put the same surrounding whitespaces around your translation than around the source string. If a source string has a space at the end of it, there must be a space at the end of your translation.

• Don't translate math functions like cos, tan etc.

• Don't translate HTML tags. Html tags are surrounded by "<>".

• Don't remove any argument placeholders as designated by the % char, such as %1, %2, etc.

• Do maintain the same beginning and ending punctuation as the source. For instance, if a sentence ends with a period, the translation must end with a period.

• Do translate Ctrl or Shift if the language calls for it - such as German.

• Do pay attention to Capitalization.

• Don’t put spaces in translations that are meant to be part of a variable name. For instance in the translation of "Radius1ElArc_".