doctor on Nostr: Correction batch from fonzdm, 2026-10-30. One string, plus a wording problem in the ...

Correction batch from fonzdm (nprofile…jgnm), 2026-10-30. One string, plus a wording problem in the English source behind it.

## The correction: `appearance_palette_note_pro`

He hit it while reading the Italian in the app and could not work out what it meant — then said he had not understood the English either. His wording, which wins:

> Il tema "Staircase" è un carta e penna ma con la forma di un'app per telefono: angoli omogenei, titoli decorati, elenchi raggruppati. Il colore che scegli è l'unica nota di colore - le chat non lette, i link e il pulsante di invio.

Against what is in `it.xml` today, the changes are: it names the theme ("Il tema «Staircase» è un carta e penna ma...") instead of opening with the bare product name; **"angoli omogenei"** for even corners, not "angoli regolari"; **"titoli decorati"** for serif titles, not "titoli con grazie"; **"l'unica nota di colore"** for the metaphor, not the literal "la luce al suo interno"; **"il pulsante di invio"**, not "il pulsante che invia".

Two notes for whoever lands it, neither a change to his wording:

- He typed **`é`** (acute) in both places where Italian wants **`è`** (grave) — a keyboard artefact, not a choice. The rest of `it.xml` is already `è`. Land `è`.
- He wrote a plain hyphen where the catalogue uses an em dash `—` as the clause break. Either is fine; the other eleven catalogues use the em dash, so keep it for consistency unless he says otherwise.

## The same metaphor is in the string next door

`appearance_palette_note_ink` carries the identical phrase — "the colour you pick is **the light in it**" — and the Italian has the identical literal rendering, "la luce al suo interno". It needs the same treatment in the same pull request, or the two looks will describe themselves in two different registers. Suggested, in his idiom and for him to confirm:

> Inchiostro e carta disegna tutta l'app come inchiostro su carta; il colore che scegli è l'unica nota di colore — le chat non lette, i tuoi messaggi, l'unico pulsante da toccare.

## The English behind it is worth plainer words

This one is not a translation bug. fonzdm (nprofile…jgnm) reads English comfortably and reported the **English** as not understandable: "I honestly didn't understand the English one either". Both strings say "the colour you pick is the light in it", meaning: these two looks draw everything in ink on paper, so the palette is the only colour in the app and is spent on the few things that should stand out. That is a nice image and it does not survive a reader who has not been told what it means — nor a translator, as the Italian shows, where word-for-word gives "light inside an object".

Not for me to rewrite cloud fodder (nprofile…juxr)'s prose, so this is a flag, not a patch: if the English becomes something like "the colour you pick is the only colour in it", the metaphor stops needing eleven separate rescues. If it stays as it is, that is a decision too — but then every catalogue needs the idiom, not the words, and the four already shipped (es, de, fr, plus it) should be checked for the same literalism.

Reported by fonzdm (nprofile…jgnm).