Re: LilyPond Odd Jobs

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Werner LEMBERG escreveu:
>>> I wonder how those strings can be internationalized.  The normal
>>> gettext mechanism might work (and is probably the right approach),
>>> but how to get the translations from the PO files into the texinfo
>>> file?
>> you could surround them by (_ "") that's a performance hit. It would
>> be better to write a bit of Scheme code that extracts the strings
>> directly from the output of procedure-source
> 
> Please elaborate.  I think I don't fully understand what you say.

Normally, one extracts strings by running gettext on a source file.

However, Scheme supports introspection, so it is possible to extract
the strings from a program, by loading a Scheme file, and inspecting
the source code of the loaded procedures from within a Scheme program.

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