[scribus-dev] Consolidating the term for 'curve'

[Kunda Loves Scribus]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:

> On 08/21/2014 08:19 AM, Kunda Loves Scribus wrote:
>
>> Came across this issue: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9120
>>
>> "For curve lines (curves) now several words are used: curve, path,
>> polyline and sometimes even may be outline and contour.
>> Term "outline" used for: document scheme, text effect, font conversion,
>> may be some else, but that is enough to get confused.
>> There are several tools that produce polylines. Quite confusing too
>> (though understandable).
>> So problem is not really in translation, but in unification of these
>> terms."
>>
>>
>>  Although there is a source of confusion with outline as it applies to
> text, and an outline of a frame or a glyph, I think the term is too
> entrenched for both meanings outside of Scribus to make some attempt at
> forbidding one usage or the other. Certainly there should be an effort to
> disambiguate when necessary -- text outline, manuscript outline, frame
> outline, glyph outline, for example. Text is not equivalent to glyph, of
> course.
>
> A polyline is not a curved line. It is a single structure of short
> straight line segments (in other words, it is not a series of individual
> lines that happen to touch end-to-end). While a polygon will refer to an
> enclosed figure, a polyline may be open. In Scribus you can take a line or
> polyline and edit it to create curves, but this is not a very significant
> source of confusion.
>
> Outline of a frame and contour of a frame are quite different. The contour
> line cannot be made visible. You're generally not even aware of it unless
> you use it for a text flow operation. Again, though, there are general
> semantic uses of contour outside of Scribus operations that we're not going
> to forbid.
>
> The main thing we should consider is that when we write documentation, we
> should avoid the confusion that may arise when the terms are used without
> explanation.
>
> Greg


So is this conversation getting any closer to a concrete decision?
Do we need to officially define these terms somewhere for translators to
reference so they can find the correct terminology in their language?

/Kunda
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