"Monte Hurd" <mhurd(a)wikimedia.org> asks:
Is there a standard way to indicate in a qqq file that
a particular translation should try to be as few characters as possible?
No standard way that I was aware of. You can always use prose. :-)
It is pretty unusual to ask for brevity though, since that may not work across languages.
Best give a reason, if you do.
Purodha