[Koha-translate] Clarification of jargon & tidying up

[lars]

As I'm going through and translating the strings extracted by tmpl_process3.pl,
I'm finding there is about 50% French text.  Is that redundant?  I am hoping to 
translate from English only so it would speed up the process if I could
weed out the redundant text.   

Also, there is some unfamiliar slang or jargon and some other things which 
are a little hard to translate out of context (i.e. using a .po file and
kbabel).  Could I ask for a little clarification or confirmation/denial of 
my initial guesses?  Specifically, 

 * what are "tags"?  MARC/UNIMARC/MARC21 fields? e.g.:
         mandatory "tags" empty

 * what is "Biblio"?  A bibliographic record?
         
 * What do "biblionumber" and "biblioitemnumber" refer to? 
        Is one the metadata and the other the instance / physical artifact?

Also, is there a recommended writing style guide?  

Also, going through the strings, I can see some easy places for improvement:

 * The use of "click", as in "can be clicked", is hardware/software dependent 
   and should be avoided in favor of some other wording.

 * white space inside hyperlinks e.g. <a1> foo </a> instead of <a1>foo</a> 
   could be removed

 * as can space before punctuation, e.g. " :" instead of ":"

A slightly more labor intensive change would be to use more CSS for layout in
the future versiosn so that we don't continue to use high repetitions of &nbsp;
for horziontal layout.

-Lars


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