From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Translating Emacs manuals is of strategic importance Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 10:33:34 +0200 Message-ID: <83h6jjj6ht.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r0iz3lx0.fsf@yahoo.com> <877ckqa6m5.fsf@yahoo.com> <8734vda9kz.fsf@yahoo.com> <5EC9A02F-DB34-48B6-BD2D-CB9E89A385D0@traductaire-libre.org> <83r0iwuek9.fsf@gnu.org> <837cknvkrx.fsf@gnu.org> <4719da9bc2414ff2d8c0@heytings.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39288"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 12 09:34:27 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rOCzj-0009tA-I4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2024 09:34:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rOCzV-0002vc-C0; Fri, 12 Jan 2024 03:34:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rOCzT-0002vB-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2024 03:34:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rOCzT-0006LH-3m; Fri, 12 Jan 2024 03:34:11 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=lq+kQBSeGpChsm4hL+f/nHS3qlQ5IBR2xYVsPV3XozI=; b=cK4h0+hqXKuA F0P2AwzU4MjfCJGFiARp1596ur+vW/Vf66nOZtkWExjJsXqvo4i0jqYkK1NrxSNj0cUQES1NlhWtG 8Fe8VuQ/VwK2RUoX4jSy5D+phtj2U5/90fvPkck2gpnhtxQGrCMCcYWXNoNuMS1yYJ+aMj+WJPjJd ffygX8Ndajhbnl8lIXJcJ8JxUHL6Eu/IjUI/6Ulph8cffkmVI3ucFgtMqeJM3JREWKqlwjEDbzq3C UtfLkfeuLw6l4akaB01czeQqEg6kkUowC8EvS0a4pDyOWkvU5f0X6ZgVJSIihsPFzsa1ZbFaGRri/ YufxMeSFuiyjdT3xheKcKA==; In-Reply-To: <4719da9bc2414ff2d8c0@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:28:40 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:314895 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:28:40 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings > cc: Jean-Christophe Helary , > stefankangas@gmail.com, vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > rms@gnu.org > > > Because if you are talking about translations of the manuals, then > > please name free software projects that have high-quality translations > > of their manuals, and the manuals are of sufficient size to consider > > them anywhere near what Emacs has to deal with. > > 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? Does it reference other manuals? How does LibreOffice decide in which language to display the manual?