Bug 157869 - UI strings "columns number" and "columns spacing" are not proper English
Summary: UI strings "columns number" and "columns spacing" are not proper English
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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unspecified
Hardware: All All
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Keywords: difficultyBeginner, easyHack, skillDesign
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Reported: 2023-10-20 20:50 UTC by Tuomas Hietala
Modified: 2023-10-24 03:13 UTC (History)
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Description Tuomas Hietala 2023-10-20 20:50:05 UTC 
Description:
The UI strings "columns number" and "columns spacing" are not proper English and their meanings are a bit unclear. The meanings might be "Number of columns" for the first one and "Spacing of columns" / "Column spacing" for the second, but I haven't checked.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/svxmessages/en/?checksum=92c916f1dcce67a6 and https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/svxmessages/en/?checksum=bb377b5ca1b7931c


Actual Results:
The strings are not proper English.

Expected Results:
The strings are proper English and factually correct.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
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Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2023-10-23 06:27:44 UTC 
Introduced by Mike in https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/116038 (no BZ reference). It could be "Number of columns" or "Column's Number". The first one is used in the accompanying dialog.

Code pointer: include/svx/strings.hrc
Comment 2 Mike Kaganski 2023-10-23 06:33:52 UTC 
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> (no BZ reference)

Mea culpa! :-)
FTR: all my commits labelled "editengine-columns" are related to the feature implemented as a fix for bug 118458 and similar.
The meta for further enhancements to that feature is bug 142729.