Re: @dircategory (Re: Translating Emacs manuals is of strategic importance)

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 01:49:53PM +0000, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> Thinking out loud here, but @node currently requires the node-name 
> argument and has next/preious/up optional argument. It seems to me that 
> most of the issues would be fixed by adding a fifth argument that acts 
> like the cross-references' second argument (online-label). That way, 
> node-name can stay as it is and act as the pointer but is displayed as 
> "online-label", which is the translated part.

A document author can use @anchor to provide target text for a
cross-reference which does not appear in the reader-visible part
of the manual.  I don't see that extending the Texinfo language is
necessary.