"Serguei Mokhov" <mokhov@cs.concordia.ca> writes:
> Now, this:
> #if defined(HAVE_GETOPT_LONG)
> #define xo(long,short,desc) printf("%s %s\n", long, desc)
> #else
> #define xo(long,short,desc) printf("%s %s\n", short, desc)
> #endif
> seems relatively generic, so it could be used by more than one tool.
But there's no good place to put it. I'd say just stick it into each
tool; it's no worse than repeating the existence of a "usage()"
subroutine in each tool.
> Is pushing it up to c.h an option,
I'd vote against that.
>> The trouble I see there is that the layout --- in particular the column
>> width --- would be embedded in such a routine and not alterable by
>> simply replacing message texts.
> True, but what would be wrong by having an argument for the column width?
The translator would have no control over such an argument --- at least
not without some mechanism outside the .po files.
regards, tom lane