Re: Emacs manuals translation readme

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 13:18:24 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>
> writes:
> 
> >> On Feb 17, 2024, at 17:55, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> When I wrote doc/LANG/, I meant doc/fr/, doc/de/, etc.  I didn't mean
> >> a literal "LANG" string.  So the above renaming now has an extra
> >> subdirectory, which was not something I had in mind.  Stefan Kangas
> >> agreed with my proposal back then.  So do you object to have manuals
> >> translated to French in doc/fr/, rather than in doc/translations/fr/ ?
> >
> > I think that’s weird.
> >
> > We’ll end up having something like
> >
> > de
> > emacs
> > fr
> > ja
> > lispintro
> > lispref
> > man
> > misc
> > zh
> >
> > which is very confusing. I’ve never seen that. I’d understand if the
> > existing English manuals were moved under doc/en, but since that’s not
> > the case, I’m not sure I understand the rationale. Still, if you and
> > Stefan are ok with that, I won’t object.
> 
> I agree that it seems rather unusual.  I thought we were discussing
> 
>     doc/translations/fr
> 
> rather than
> 
>     doc/fr/

No, we weren't.  You agreed to the doc/fr/ suggestion.

But anyway, I won't fight if you two prefer doc/translations/fr.  I
just wanted to set the record straight.