Re: help with bash script to translate @ref{} items in translated manuals

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno ven 21 apr 2017 alle 15:54, address@hidden ha scritto:
> Federico Bruni:
> >  Il giorno ven 21 apr 2017 alle 7:08, Federico Bruni
> >  <address@hidden> ha scritto:
> >  > I guess I'll have to revert to my almost manual replacement I've 
> > used
> >  > so far.
> >
> >  Or I may try a  different approach and script a replacement from a 
> > file
> >  like:
> >
> >  @ref{Different editions from one source},@ref{Edizioni diverse da un
> >  unico sorgente}
> >  @ref{Dimensions},@ref{Dimensioni}
> >  @ref{Direction and placement},@ref{Direzione e posizionamento}
> >
> >  that replace first instance of @ref with the second instance (after 
> > the
> >  comma)
>
> You already have such an replacement file in Documentation/po/it.po:
>
> $ fgrep -C2 'Different editions from one source' 
> Documentation/po/it.po
> #. @node in Documentation/notation/input.itely
> #. @subsection in Documentation/notation/input.itely
> msgid "Different editions from one source"
> msgstr ""
>
> Maybe that could be put to use.

The translation stuff is quite a mess.
IIRC those po files are used only to translate a few strings of the 
website, but most of the strings are useless.
In fact they are empty and nobody complains about it :)

> I don't know if it is up to speed yet, but have a look at
>
>  http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/man/man7/po4a.7.php
>
> There is some talk about texinfo and gettext in:
>
>  
> https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Internationalization-of-Document-Strings.html

That manual is about texi2any, but we are still forced to use texi2html.
I once tried to find some projects using texi2any and gettext. I could 
not find even one.
Can't remember where or who I asked. I remember a person replied, but 
he was using the same method we are already using (diff), see:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2013-08/msg00001.html