Hi. I'm afraid I haven't read through this whole thread (but just the first and last pages), so I'm not sure of the details, but it certainly seems that you should be applauded for tacking an enormous task. You seem to (still!) have a lot of determination. Keep up your attitude!
...Right, that gets ToME 4's English script decently squared away! There's still more though, but outside of somebody else having a better idea, that will manifest from me hunting through Lua files in Notepad for known revision gaps and probably a host of other things as slim to nothing was actually available as any sort of text file---doings so far were mainly just me hunting screen by screen ingame. :P
A funny story... I offered to DarkGod to go through and fix all the errors in the ToME4 text that I could find. I was quite surprised when he said someone had done it already. Mostly. He emailed me the files you had sent him, and so I set to work applying them to the source to create a patch. This took most of an evening. Who knows how long it would have taken DarkGod to get around to it; some of your finds were already obsolete :P. I did spot many more errors besides the ones you listed, but you did do good work (just don't be surprised to discover I made some changes to your rewordings :P). But the moral of the story is: for the love of god, don't list corrections in a text file, but just fix errors in files directly, and then create a patch - there was a lot of work wasted there. I'm glad to hear that you're investing time in learning to use SVN - you won't regret it! (Of course, you can create a patch against a file that is not checked into version control, but the patch files generated by SVN have the huge benefit of saying which version of the file they were created against, which makes them much smoother to apply)
Likewise: Notepad?! If you are going to do a lot of text editing, you should get a decent text editor, or at the very least, use a utility which lets you search multiple files for a regexp. I found many typos in ToME4 by searching for "minimun", etc. Learn about using regexps. If you don't like commandline utilities (like grep), try Notepad++.
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