According to this, lines that begin with a space are expected to be part of a paragraph, and lines starting with two spaces are expected to be displayed verbatim - intltool-extract works consistently with this, so after changing a file to start description strings streching to multiple lines with two spaces, line breaks are preserved. Too bad, that translation still does not work: http://people.ubuntu.com/~kelemeng/pix/checkbox.png
I got it: http:// www.debian. org/doc/ debian- policy/ ch-controlfield s.html# s-f-Description
According to this, lines that begin with a space are expected to be part of a paragraph, and lines starting with two spaces are expected to be displayed verbatim - intltool-extract works consistently with this, so after changing a file to start description strings streching to multiple lines with two spaces, line breaks are preserved. Too bad, that translation still does not work: http:// people. ubuntu. com/~kelemeng/ pix/checkbox. png