Re: [WIP] localize guix.texi

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Julien Lepiller <address@hidden> skribis:

> Hi, this new version of the patch takes your feedback into account. I tried
> to put guix.fr.texi in dist_info_TEXINFOS, but automake didn't generate the
> rules for building guix.fr.info in that case.
>
> I don't like the fact that both the po and texi files are commited and will
> be changed together whenever someone makes a change in the manual.

I think this can be addressed by adding:

  PO_DEPENDS_ON_POT = no

in ‘Makevars’.  This variable is documented like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
# This tells whether or not to regenerate a PO file when $(DOMAIN).pot
# has changed.  Possible values are "yes" and "no".  Set this to no if
# the POT file is checked in the repository and the version control
# program ignores timestamps.
PO_DEPENDS_ON_POT = yes
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> The French translation is just the beginning: I translated only the 
> Introduction
> and the Installation pages. Also, I used the po file to add the
> @documentlanguage macro to change the texinfo strings to French (like "see",
> "next page", "up", etc).

Sounds good.  I think ‘makeinfo --html’ would also need to run in fr_FR
locale no?  Or does @documentlanguage take care of everything, including
strings automatically added by makeinfo, such as those that appear at
the top of each HTML page?

> There's an issue with changes that add references: when that happens, the
> default translation would be the English version, so the reference would be
> to the English name (for instance, @pxref{Invoking guix package}), resulting
> in a build failure when the name has been changed (for instance
> "Invoquer guix package" in French). I would like to be able to localize the
> section name because it appears in link names. Any ideas?

No idea.  Can po4a help with that?

At worst, if .po files are committed and not systematically generated,
we can let translators handle this before they commit?

Thanks,
Ludo’.