+
+ switch (n_authors)
+ {
+ case 0:
+ /* The caller must provide at least one author name. */
+ abort ();
+ case 1:
+ /* TRANSLATORS: %s denotes an author name. */
+ vfprintf (stream, _("Written by %s.\n"), authors);
+ break;
+ case 2:
+ /* TRANSLATORS: Each %s denotes an author name. */
+ vfprintf (stream, _("Written by %s and %s.\n"), authors);
+ break;
+ case 3:
+ /* TRANSLATORS: Each %s denotes an author name. */
+ vfprintf (stream, _("Written by %s, %s, and %s.\n"), authors);
+ break;
+ case 4:
+ /* TRANSLATORS: Each %s denotes an author name.
+ You can use line breaks, estimating that each author name occupies
+ ca. 16 screen columns and that a screen line has ca. 80 columns. */
+ vfprintf (stream, _("Written by %s, %s, %s,\nand %s.\n"), authors);
+ break;
+ case 5:
+ /* TRANSLATORS: Each %s denotes an author name.
+ You can use line breaks, estimating that each author name occupies
+ ca. 16 screen columns and that a screen line has ca. 80 columns. */
+ vfprintf (stream, _("Written by %s, %s, %s,\n%s, and %s.\n"), authors);
+ break;
+ case 6:
+ /* TRANSLATORS: Each %s denotes an author name.
+ You can use line breaks, estimating that each author name occupies
+ ca. 16 screen columns and that a screen line has ca. 80 columns. */
+ vfprintf (stream, _("Written by %s, %s, %s,\n%s, %s, and %s.\n"),
+ authors);
+ break;
+ case 7:
+ /* TRANSLATORS: Each %s denotes an author name.
+ You can use line breaks, estimating that each author name occupies
+ ca. 16 screen columns and that a screen line has ca. 80 columns. */
+ vfprintf (stream, _("Written by %s, %s, %s,\n%s, %s, %s, and %s.\n"),
+ authors);
+ break;
+ case 8:
+ /* TRANSLATORS: Each %s denotes an author name.
+ You can use line breaks, estimating that each author name occupies
+ ca. 16 screen columns and that a screen line has ca. 80 columns. */
+ vfprintf (stream, _("\
+Written by %s, %s, %s,\n%s, %s, %s, %s,\nand %s.\n"),
+ authors);
+ break;
+ case 9:
+ /* TRANSLATORS: Each %s denotes an author name.
+ You can use line breaks, estimating that each author name occupies
+ ca. 16 screen columns and that a screen line has ca. 80 columns. */
+ vfprintf (stream, _("\
+Written by %s, %s, %s,\n%s, %s, %s, %s,\n%s, and %s.\n"),
+ authors);
+ break;
+ default:
+ /* 10 or more authors. Use an abbreviation, since the human reader
+ will probably not want to read the entire list anyway. */
+ /* TRANSLATORS: Each %s denotes an author name.
+ You can use line breaks, estimating that each author name occupies
+ ca. 16 screen columns and that a screen line has ca. 80 columns. */
+ vfprintf (stream, _("\
+Written by %s, %s, %s,\n%s, %s, %s, %s,\n%s, %s, and others.\n"),
+ authors);
+ break;
+ }
+ va_end (authors);