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7. Restart Ardour to see what your translation looks like and whether it needs
fixes, e.g. has to be shorter.
+8. IMPORTANT NOTE: there are times when the English phrase to be translated is
+ambiguous without more context. What does "S" mean? In such cases, we use a
+different markup for translated strings which includes context. It will appear
+in the msgid in the .po/.pot file like this:
+
+ CONTEXT|ToBeTranslated
+
+So for example
+
+ Solo|S
+
+This should help you understand the the "S" here is a short form designed to refer to "Solo".
+
+In your translated text, you should remove the CONTEXT and the | symbol.
+
+
Note that as of Ardour 4 the translations are only installed when you run
'./waf i18n' after './waf' and before 'sudo ./waf install'.