Could you help on some uncleared strings during my translations?

[Derek Atkins]

Dancefire <dancefire at gmail.com> writes:

>>>> #: ../src/gnome/dialog-tax-info.c:281
>>>> msgid "Form Line Data: "
>>>>
>>>> What's meaning of that?
>>>
>>> The source code location suggests this is related to the mapping of gnucash accounts to the tax-related paperwork. I think this string means "The line in your tax forms [i.e. the paper form with the official number e.g. foo-123] to which this account belongs to."
>>>
>>
>> This is essentially correct. For the US Income Tax support in gnucash,
>> each tax code that can be assigned to an account generally corresponds
>> to a specific line number on a paper form and each form has a unique
>> identification (e.g., Form 1040, Schedule A). However, the line number
>> on a given form tends to vary from year to year. To make it easy to
>> map a users gnucash data to US Income Tax forms, the US Income Tax
>> Report sorts and totals the amounts by line number within tax form.
>> The system has, and displays on the Tax Information Dialog, the data
>> showing for each year what form and line number on that form a given
>> tax code is associated with - the heading on the dialog for this block
>> of displayed data is "Form Line Data". This data is displayed so that
>> when a user is doing the tax code assignment to an account, it can be
>> referenced to help understand what the tax code refers to.
>>
>
> I may misunderstand for the word "line number". Is it same as the line
> number in "there are 4000 lines in the main.cpp file, to view it
> clearly, you should show the Line Number on left side."?
> Should I translate the "Form Line Data" as "Form Number Data" or "Form
> Code Data"? I think "Form 1040" is a form number, rather than form
> line number. Or that means the form contains 1040 lines of words?

Honestly I don't think you need to translate anything from this
dialog -- it's pretty US-centric.  I'm not sure it makes sense to
translate it.

>> Alex
>>
>
> Thank all of you so much for your help.

-derek

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