<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Gregory Pittman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com" target="_blank">gpittman@iglou.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 08/21/2014 08:19 AM, Kunda Loves Scribus wrote:<br>
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Came across this issue: <a href="http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9120" target="_blank">http://bugs.scribus.net/view.<u></u>php?id=9120</a><br>
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"For curve lines (curves) now several words are used: curve, path, polyline and sometimes even may be outline and contour.<br>
Term "outline" used for: document scheme, text effect, font conversion, may be some else, but that is enough to get confused.<br>
There are several tools that produce polylines. Quite confusing too (though understandable).<br>
So problem is not really in translation, but in unification of these terms."<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Greg</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So is this conversation getting any closer to a concrete decision?</div><div class="gmail_extra">Do we need to officially define these terms somewhere for translators to reference so they can find the correct terminology in their language?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">/Kunda</div></div>