Re: [WIP] localize guix.texi

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

julien lepiller <address@hidden> skribis:

> Le 2018-03-05 10:08, address@hidden a écrit :

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>> 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---
>
> Well, since there's no pot file, it doesn't really help.

Oh, I thought po4a would generate a pot file from the texi source.

>> At worst, if .po files are committed and not systematically generated,
>> we can let translators handle this before they commit?
>
> I don't understand? The issue is when translators are not
> involved. IIUC in
> texinfo, the section name (reference) and title (displayed) are the
> same, so
> section names have to be translated. When someone makes a change to
> the English
> manual and adds a reference to an existing section, po4a cannot
> generate a
> translation, so it will leave it as is. So we will get a reference to
> an invalid
> section in the translated manuals and they will refuse to build.

Right, but the “we” in the sentence above corresponds to translators,
right?  As long as only translators see the problem, that should be
fine.

> There is enough information in the po file though, so I think po4a can
> be
> improved (or we could add our own script for that).

Great.

Thanks!

Ludo’.