Re: Started German website translation

[Ognyan Kulev]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    And - although I guess this has been discussed before - did you
>    ever consider a *simple* way of automatically including header and
>    footer into each page, using a Makefile that does something like
>
> Not really.  But I'll be that such a patch would be loved by us all.
> I'm not totally familiar with CSS, but wouldn't this be possible if
> that was used?  If not, a simple way to shove the header stuff into
> the file, would be to add a magic string to each file, and then do a
> simple search-and-replace.  Hmmm... Maybe the time-stamps on each page
> would get screwd up...  Anyway, I think the idea is worth thinking
> about, and even implementing.

What about the following: Pages are as they are now, but content is 
surrounded by some marks, like <!--content start--> and <!--content 
end-->.  We have separate files for the header and footer, or some kind 
of template.  A (Perl?) script regenerates _all_ HTML pages using this 
template (extract content and put in template).  This script should also 
handle multi-language views of page.  As an option, it may color the 
selected page in navigation bar, or something like that.  The tricky 
part is that if result file is same as original (before processing), 
then the file should not overwritten.  This is important so that only 
really changed files are committed.

Regards,
ogi