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Re: Some manual @ref @xref @pxref fail when untranslated
From: |
Meiyo Peng |
Subject: |
Re: Some manual @ref @xref @pxref fail when untranslated |
Date: |
Thu, 23 May 2019 12:05:24 +0800 |
Hi Florian,
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes:
> Meiyo Peng reports at
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-05/msg00275.html>
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:29:35AM +0800, Meiyo Peng wrote:
>> I just find out that the @pxref{Packages with Multiple Outputs} in
>> doc/contributing.texi has to be translated. Or I will get an error
>> while running make:
>>
>> #+begin_example
>> doc/contributing.zh_CN.texi:567: @pxref reference to nonexistent node
>> `Packages with Multiple Outputs'
>> #+end_example
>>
>> I guess it's because the node name is in doc/guix.texi (another file
>> than doc/contributing.texi). Any idea?
>>
>
> The reason appears to be that when not translating (using the first
> attached patch that reverts back to @pxref{Packages with Multiple
> Outputs}), po4a-translate transforms
>
> @item
> Take a look at the profile reported by @command{guix size}
> (@pxref{Invoking guix size}). This will allow you to notice references
> to other packages unwillingly retained. It may also help determine
> whether to split the package (@pxref{Packages with Multiple Outputs}),
> and which optional dependencies should be used. In particular, avoid adding
> @code{texlive} as a dependency: because of its extreme size, use
> @code{texlive-tiny} or @code{texlive-union} instead.
>
> to
>
> @item
> address@hidden address@hidden guix
> address@hidden
> with Multiple
> address@hidden@address@hidden
>
> with the pxref split over three lines because the surrounding context
> has no space characters. doc/local.mk’s xref_command can only deal
> with two lines however.
There is no space separator for Chinese words. Typesetting of CJK
languages is always a headache for FLOSS developers.
> The second attached patch makes xref_command grep three-line
> references too, so it finds the translation, *however* I cannot get
> this multiline sed to actually insert the translation into three line
> references. Perhaps it would be better to just replace this complex
> xref_command with Guile code? I will not do it however.
Thank you for the work. I have found only one such case in the Guix
manual, so that's fine. I can manually translate this @pxref.
--
Meiyo Peng
https://www.pengmeiyu.com/