Re: Where to contribute manual translations ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 09:04:15 -0800
> Cc: vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > If we are going to call the source files of the translations of
> > manuals as MANUAL-LANG.texi, then we don't need a separate directory,
> > we could instead put them all in the same directories.  That is, we
> > could have doc/misc/ses.texi and doc/mist/ses-fr.texi.  This would be
> > simpler, I think?
> 
> It would be simpler, yes.  But it's nice to be able to have a directory
> where a simple `ls` gives you "all the manuals that exist" without
> having to filter for all languages, or manually check to see if they are
> translations.  (Unfortunately, filtering out "-[a-z][a-z].texi" doesn't
> work due to files like mairix-el.texi.)
> 
> So moving it all into a directory like doc/translations makes things a
> little bit more complicated, but arguably also a bit tidier.
> 
> OTOH, we could always change things around later if it starts becoming a
> problem.  For now, it's all a bit hypothetical given that it's only one
> file.  :-)
> 
> > Why not info/$MANUAL-$LANG.info ?
> 
> Users of non-French locales do not want to see the French manual(s), I
> think.  OTOH, if I start Emacs with something like
> 
>     LANG=fr_FR emacs -Q
> 
> I would probably like to see the french manual.

So what will be in the menu in info/dire we distribute?

And if we are going to have separate directories for each language,
both under doc/ and under info/, why do we also have to name the files
FOO-fr.texi or FOO-fr.info?