Le vendredi 23 juin 2006 à 22:15 +0100, David a écrit :
Anne Wilson wrote:
>On Wednesday 28 June 2006 21:08, Thomas Canniot wrote:
>
>
>>I'm translating system-config-printer and I think that some strings can
>>be improved.
>>
>>For example, I had a lot of difficulties to translate the strings
>>"Banner", "Starting Banner" and "Ending Banner". In
fact, it seems that
>>banner is not properly used here according to my Collins Cobuild
>>Dictionnary.
>>
>>However, I don't have an alternative to suggest.
>>
>>
>>
>'Banner' is the name that has been used for many years to describe the pages
>printed before and after a print job in a multi-user environment. I think it
>is about 20 years since I first heard it used in that way.
>
>Anne
>
>
Yes I agree with your description of Banner. As far as I remember this
was a throughback to the days of massive line flow print jobs where
banner pages identified information about the print job that followed -
this could amount to many hundreds or even thousands of pages. This was
relevant when one printer was hsared between many users but I dont ever
recall having found a use for it on A4 print jobs so maybe it could now
be deleted????
Ah the memories come flooding back!!!
D
Thanks a lot for your clues, that helped me to understand what a Banner
was. A definition can be found here :
http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/b/banner.html
However, the lpr man pages are not translated in French *yet*. I thougth
about a translation with a friend of mine and found a better translation
that the one I found.
Regards,
--
Thomas Canniot
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasCanniot