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Re: Revisiting: @pxref does not always produce "see" in info reader


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: Revisiting: @pxref does not always produce "see" in info reader
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 01:22:51 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28)

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 08:12:28AM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> Also, with translators trying to work on texinfo documents, it is actually a 
> problem to have such strings pop-up in sentences. And it is not practical to 
> have catalogs of translations of "see" that include the translation in the 
> proper position (for ex. in Japanese the equivalent should be after the 
> reference, not before it).

Excellent point.  I've sometimes wondered if Info files should have a
document language declaration.  The "see" string would be inappropriate
if the language was something other than English.



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