Re: Narrow down search of Lilypond documentation to English

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 21.03.2015 um 15:38 schrieb Colin Tennyson:
> For Lilypond the reference documentation is the one in english. Besides that
> translated versions of the documenation are available (in various states of
> completeness).
>
> The Lilypond website uses a naming system:
> Example:
> English version:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/lilypond-command-index.html
> German version:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/lilypond-command-index.de.html
> Italian version:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/lilypond-command-index.it.html
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
Definitely not. You have to learn the English command names, indeed, but 
it’s by no means necessary to read the source code for creating any 
score with Lilypond.

Yours, Simon
> 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.
>
> Colin Tennyson
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