[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11008: Improve copy of first post to provide useful info and tips

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#11008: Improve copy of first post to provide useful info and tips
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 Reporter:  demetris        |       Owner:  westi           
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  reviewing       
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  2.9             
Component:  General         |     Version:  2.9             
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:  has-patch commit
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Comment(by demetris):

 @dd32:

 Translators can still do that.  For example, you just insert a:

 {{{
 <p>Blah blah blah.</p>
 }}}

 at the start or end of a string, and you are done.  (I do it all the
 time.)

 About maintenance, I was thinking cases like this:  Say that, after
 feedback from users, we decide to drop one of the paragraphs of one of the
 list items for 2.9.1 or for 3.0.  Translators will not have to do anything
 at all with the alternative format.

 Or, another possibility:  Strings are made re-usable when they are short
 and self-sufficient.  (That’s something that I think is worth
 investigating in a wider context, and that could possibly facilitate the
 localization of plugins and themes.)

 The only downside I see with the splitting is that some strings may need
 annotations to make sense.  (Not at the moment, because they are all in a
 row in the POT file.)

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