Re: Translating Emacs manuals is of strategic importance

[Gregory Heytings]

> > FYI, the LibreOffice manual ("Help") is more than twice the size of the 
> > Emacs manual, and has been translated in a few dozen languages.
>
> Is it written in Texinfo?

Of course not.  The "master" (English) file is written in XML, and PO is 
used for the translations.

> Does it reference other manuals?

No, AFAIK it is self-contained.

> How does LibreOffice decide in which language to display the manual?

LibreOffice is fully localized.  Its UI elements and Help are displayed in 
the language specified in the LC_ALL or LANG environment variable.