location of the string: https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/master/cui/inc/tipoftheday.hrc#87 Comment in Weblate: Shouldn't this say "%MOD1++" (or rather, "%MOD1+Plus") and "%MOD1+-" (or "%MOD1+Minus") for consistency's sake?
another one related to another string located at: https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/master/cui/inc/tipoftheday.hrc#90 comment on Weblate: Translators: Note that many European keyboard layouts don't have a dedicated ; (semicolon) key. So, starting from LibreOffice 7.0, these shortcuts will instead be %MOD1+, (comma) and Shift+%MOD1+, (comma) for inserting date and time, respectively. For affected languages, see https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/94305 and Just noticed that according to Accelerators.xcu, when using US English user interface, Shift+Command+semicolon won't insert current time on a Mac - instead it opens the spelling dialog. And there isn't any other shortcut defined for inserting current time on Mac, either.
Tend to reject the request of more variables. Fine for me if translators change the text completely but if we make everything optional ("Use MOD1% with %COMMA to make %SYSTEM behave %FOO") it becomes a l10n nightmare. See also the discussion in bug 130979 (and other).
If a tip is language dependent and can't apply to most of languages, wouldn't it be just removed? IMHO, it's not the role of translators to try to deal with these problems but perhaps I'm wrong.
Turning %MOD + +/- into + Plus/Minus sounds okay to me. The comment 2 was about the keyboard topic "The shortcut is different in my language" and "It depends on the OS/DE".
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/132385 1. Changed tip into a question. 2. Used %MOD1++ and %MOD1+- to be consistent with appearance in Tool>Customize UI 3. iiuc no change is needed in cui/inc/tipofday.hrc for %MOD1+;
Seth Chaiklin committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/9a773e8ca65ccb30cdfbf47b94aabe356df8cad2 tdf#143264 improve expressions with %MOD1 -/+ It will be available in 7.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.