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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2024 05:40:38 +0000
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > 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.

My personal preferences only matter when I do the translation.  It is
wrong to impose those preferences on others.  Of course, the
motivation to be able to work on translation in Emacs is high, but
whether what Emacs provides is good enough is up to each translator to
decide.