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Re: Narrow down search of Lilypond documentation to English


From: Federico Bruni
Subject: Re: Narrow down search of Lilypond documentation to English
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:58:28 +0100

2015-03-21 15:38 GMT+01:00 Colin Tennyson <address@hidden>:
As we know, this has huge consequences for the searchability of the site:
To search the Lilypond 2.18 documentation for entries with the string
"barnumbercheck" I enter in the Google search field:

barnumbercheck site:/lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation

Google then gives me search results from ALL the languages. For example, for
"barnumbercheck" the second search result is in Japanese.


If you click on "Search tools", just below the search bar of google, a dropdown menu appears where you can choose to display only pages in your language.
Is this what you need?
 

Feature request:
Restructure the Lilypond documentation in such a way that it becomes
possible for Google to narrow down searches to a single language, in my case
english.


Out of sheer curiosity: how did it come about that the language versions of
the documenation are distinguished only by adding at the very end of the URL
the two-letter land code?


It's because of the automatic language selection.
An URL without extension will serve a different page depending on the language settings of the user browser: name.it.html if italian, name.html if english and so on.
 
My best guess is that for many years a policy was in place to keep everyting
Lilypond in english only. After all, the Lilypond source code is in english,
so anyone who wants to create Lilypond files has to master english anyway.
Subsequent guess: at some point that policy was reverted, but by then it was
too late to accomodate different language versions in the Lilypond website
directory structure.
I'm eager to learn whether my guesses are correct.

I don't think they are :-)


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