Re: Translation of manuals (was: SES manual French translation)

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Jan 6, 2024, at 13:35, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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>> I understand now that you’d prefer to work in Emacs for all the
>> translation work
> 
> This is not a mere personal preference.  We offer Emacs as the
> solution for editing.  It would be self-defeating to adopt a format,
> for ANY of the files we edit, which is ill-suited to editing with
> Emacs!

I understand that. But currently, the translation-editing functions 
offered by Emacs are not up to par with translation dedicated free 
software packages. So, translators tend to prefer such packages and 
thus the formats that such packages support.

But now that I understand why Eli as project maintainer does not favour 
PO, I am totally fine with the project’s position. We need to 
investigate what are the best ways to handle TeXinfo files for 
translation and propose guidelines to potential translators.