Could you help on some uncleared strings during my translations?

J. Alex Aycinena alex.aycinena at gmail.com
Wed Apr 28 15:12:04 EDT 2010


Dear Tao Wang,

Please see my comments below:

> From: Dancefire <dancefire at gmail.com>
> To: "J. Alex Aycinena" <alex.aycinena at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:00:44 +1000
> Subject: Re: Could you help on some uncleared strings during my translations?
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:22 AM, J. Alex Aycinena
> <alex.aycinena at gmail.com> wrote:
>> See comments, below:
>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>
>>> To: Dancefire <dancefire at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:18:50 +0200
>>> Subject: Re: Could you help on some uncleared strings during my translations?
>>> I'll answer the rest:
>>>
>>> Zitat von Dancefire <dancefire at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> 1)
>>>> #: ../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?
>

Yes, I can see the source of the confusion with what I said - sorry
about that. "Form 1040" is the name the US government gives to the tax
form. A different tax form may be called, for example, "Schedule A
(Form 1040)". There are many of these. Each of these forms has
multiple lines on them, each of which would correspond to one or more
tax codes listed in gnucash in the Tax Options Dialog. Each tax code
listed there could be assigned to one or more accounts.

Perhaps looking at one would help? I have attached a pdf of a tax form
called "Schedule A" (ignore the first page of the pdf - look at page
2). You will see that, for tax year 2009, line 16 is "Gifts by cash or
check". In tax year 2006, this same item, "Gifts by cash or check",
was line 15 on that year's version of the form.

So the phrase "Form Line Data" is a heading displayed above the listed
data showing year ranges and line numbers on the Tax Options Dialog
and means: "Data about the Line numbers on Tax Forms". On the screen,
for the tax code with the description "Gifts by cash or check", it
looks like this:

Form Line Data:
2007 - now 16
1994 - 2006 15
1991 - 1993 13
etc.

Hope that helps.

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

On the contrary - thank you for the translation and the attention to detail.

> --
> Regards
>
> Tao Wang

Regards,

Alex
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