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  • text/menu/obv-2/qwk.msg text/menu/qwk.msg text/menu/spitfire/qwk.msg

    From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Mon Sep 28 21:10:26 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/89d68c5a4b95b2185f077091
    Modified Files:
    text/menu/obv-2/qwk.msg text/menu/qwk.msg text/menu/spitfire/qwk.msg Log Message:
    QWK menu files: fixed-width command words, lowercase obv-2 keys

    Give each translatable command-word @-code in the default, spitfire, and
    obv-2 QWK menus a fixed width (e.g. @Download|L8@), the length of the
    English word, so a translation of a different length is padded or
    truncated instead of shifting the menu borders.

    The obv-2 menu's command keys are lower-case again (@DOWNLOADCHAR|D@
    etc.), as they were before the keys became @-codes.

    Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Wed Sep 30 02:44:22 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/df6dc26dcced2dd5fc8899d6
    Modified Files:
    text/menu/obv-2/qwk.msg text/menu/qwk.msg text/menu/spitfire/qwk.msg Log Message:
    QWK menus: don't truncate translated command words

    The menu files padded each command word to a fixed width (@Word|L9@),
    which cut off any translation longer than the English word. The words
    are now displayed at their natural width and the text that follows each
    one is anchored with @POS:<column>@, so a longer word uses the blank
    space before the next column or the border. English output is unchanged.

    A word long enough to reach the next anchor pushes the rest of that line
    right; of the stock translations only the French and German Quit do, in
    the spitfire menu.

    Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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