sujato
November 30, 2020, 11:47pm
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No, thanks for noticing! Keep reporting things!
It is however intentional: the different style indicates text that is added to the translation by the translator. What is broken is that there should be a tooltip that indicates this to the user, but that is missing. I’ve noted in here:
opened 11:43PM - 30 Nov 20 UTC
texts have helper classes that indicate various aspects of the text.
One such… class is `add` which you can see if you go here and search for 'womb':
https://staging.suttacentral.net/mn9/en/bodhi
The added text is a different color. But it should have a title attribute saying something like "Text added by translator or editor". This is probably no the only broken class!
The list of classes is here:
https://staging.suttacentral.net/zz1/zz/test
https://staging.suttacentral.net/zz3/zz/test
These are broken on the old site, too.
We keep this markup out of respect for the translator, but personally I disagree with this convention.
This point came up in another discussion, and I thought it might be worthwhile to say something about it in its own topic. The following is the recommendation and guidelines I follow for SC.
In academic practice it is common to indicate supplied terms in translations with [square brackets]. I recommend always avoiding these, as they are unscientific, misleading, and ugly. They detract from the text and convey a misleading sense of false precision.
If square brackets are to be used at all, th…
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