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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 19:41:27 +0000
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, stefankangas@gmail.com,
>  vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org,
>  help-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> 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.

Do you mean that a translated manual should have an @anchor for each
@node, where nodes have translated names and the anchors give their
original names in English?