From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@openmailbox.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Texinfo in descriptions?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:19:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mjgajnn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87si71j754.fsf@openmailbox.org> (Mathieu Lirzin's message of "Sun, 30 Aug 2015 14:24:55 +0200")
Mathieu Lirzin (2015-08-30 15:24 +0300) wrote:
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Mathieu Lirzin (2015-08-28 00:04 +0300) wrote:
>>
>>> Here is a first attempt. It doesn't feel right to me but fornow I don't
>>> know what to do without duplicating code or reorganizing the world. The
>>> problem is that translations are handle in (guix ui) so we need to
>>> regenerate texi->plain-text.
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean by 'regenerate texi->plain-text'.
>
> Maybe the correct expression should have been "reiterate
> texi->plain-text". What I meant was that the process of converting from
> texinfo to plain-text need to be done in (guix ui) too, because
> translated package description are texinfo fragment.
Ah, now I understand what you mean.
>>> - (define (description->recutils str)
>>> - (let ((str (P_ str)))
>>> + (define (description->recutils str)
>>> + (let ((str (texi->plain-text (P_ str))))
>>
>> IIUC there is no need to use 'texi->plain-text' here. Instead you can
>> replace 'package-description' with 'package-description-string' in the
>> body of 'package->recutils'. Or did I miss anything?
>
> That was my first solution before realizing that this will lead to a
> problem that this unrealistic example illustrates.
>
> ;; with fr_FR.UTF-8 locale
>
> (package-description foo)
> => "socks @code{foo}."
>
> (package-description-string foo)
> => "socks `foo'.\n\n"
>
> (N_ (package-description foo))
> => "chaussettes @code{foo}."
>
> (N_ (package-description-string foo))
> => "socks `foo'.\n\n"
>
> In the last evaluation gettext was unable to find the translated string
> corresponding to msgid "socks `foo'.\n\n".
Now I see, thanks for the explanation! Honestly I don't know
how/when/where this translation stuff happens, so I don't have any
useful comments.
>> Also I think the same replacement should be done in (guix scripts
>> lint) ...
>
> I think more can be done in (guix scripts lint). For example checking
> if invoking 'package-description-string' fails which would indicate that
> the markup is not correctly used.
Indeed.
>> ... and (guix scripts package).
>
> This script uses 'package-description' to search in it. IIUC it was
> suggested by Ludo to search using the raw Texinfo fragment and to
> display using the plain-text version.
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00609.html>
>
> Thank you very much for your reply, :)
It wasn't a very useful reply, isn't it :-) Sorry for the noize.
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-30 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-16 11:17 [PATCH] gnu packages: Clean up synopses and descriptions Alex Kost
2015-07-16 9:40 ` Eric Bavier
2015-07-16 15:55 ` Alex Kost
2015-07-16 19:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-17 12:41 ` Alex Kost
2015-07-17 21:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-18 10:07 ` Alex Kost
2015-07-16 11:52 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-07-16 15:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-16 21:33 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-07-17 21:18 ` Texinfo in descriptions? Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-21 21:37 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-07-22 13:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-22 21:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-22 22:08 ` Andreas Enge
2015-07-23 9:49 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-07-23 13:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-23 15:09 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-07-23 18:00 ` Andreas Enge
2015-08-25 22:09 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-08-26 7:57 ` Andy Wingo
2015-08-27 19:48 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-07-23 13:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-08-27 21:04 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-08-28 21:47 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-08-30 17:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-08-30 19:06 ` Alex Kost
2015-08-30 20:42 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-08-31 21:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-01 16:41 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-09-02 21:27 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-09-03 22:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-04 19:43 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-09-06 13:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-06 20:10 ` Alex Kost
2015-09-06 21:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-07 15:50 ` Alex Kost
2015-09-07 15:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-08-30 10:10 ` Alex Kost
2015-08-30 12:24 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-08-30 15:19 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2015-07-17 12:35 ` [PATCHES] gnu packages: Clean up synopses and descriptions Alex Kost
2015-07-17 21:07 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-07-17 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-18 10:08 ` Alex Kost
2015-07-18 21:13 ` Andreas Enge
2015-07-19 9:58 ` Alex Kost
2015-07-16 16:03 ` [PATCH] " Alex Kost
2015-07-16 20:02 ` Mathieu Lirzin
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