Comment 2 for bug 916096

Hi Daniel

You can split these strings in smaller pieces, by adding lines containing a space and a dot only, see: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Description
So this:

PURPOSE:
    This test will test display rotation
STEPS:
    1. Open the Displays application
    2. Select a new rotation value from the dropdown list
    3. Click on Apply
(snip)

Could become this:

PURPOSE:
 .
    This test will test display rotation
.
STEPS:
.
    1. Open the Displays application
.
    2. Select a new rotation value from the dropdown list
.
    3. Click on Apply

This would fit perfectly for us, but:
- you would need to take special care to remove the empty lines, which will show up in the place of the "space+full stop" lines.
- the problem I reported in the comments 6 and 7 of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+bug/740146 might still be around. Using one big description string avoids it, but switching back to multiple smaller chunks might expose it again, which would be worse than translating a few duplicate strings. Had no time to check this yet.