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You can report bugs and make feature requests [https://bugs.sugarlabs.org on our bug-tracking system] (You need to create an account first). Please add "lionaneesh" in the CC list to notify the maintainer [untill we get our own component].
 
You can report bugs and make feature requests [https://bugs.sugarlabs.org on our bug-tracking system] (You need to create an account first). Please add "lionaneesh" in the CC list to notify the maintainer [untill we get our own component].
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=== Localization tips ===
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In short, this activity uses the XO-4 internal accelerometer to
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measure the tilt of the laptop in the horizontal plane and display x
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and y coordinates (to two decimal places).  lionaneesh developed it
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and it is sort of cool, IMHO.
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https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Level_Tool
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The only three strings in the PO file are.
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Level
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x: %.2f
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y: %.2f
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In this context, the meaning of the word Level would be a verb form (we try to name activities with verbs to show they are for "doing") and it would represent that action of making something flat in the horizontal plane.
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"She levels the sand before building a castle."
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It does NOT have the connotation of "height", as in "the sound level is too high".
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If a verb form of "level" is awkward or not available, a noun form describing the instrument used to measure flatness in the horizontal plane, would be acceptable and an accurate description of the function the activity provides.
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As for the other two strings
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x: %.2f
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y: %.2f
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The x and y represent the lower-case x and y symbols employed to describe two of the axes in the Cartesian coordinate system, they are not really the Latin alphabet letters themselves, but those letters used as symbols to represent a mathematical concept, in the same manner that the Greek letter "π" or pi is used to represent the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter.  For many languages, there will be no need to change the x or y symbol at all, because the true source language of "mathematics" has a certain universality.  The rest of those two strings "%.2f" instructs the program to display numbers with two decimal points of precision and should not be changed in L10n.
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=== Author ===
 
=== Author ===