Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 1557 in lilypond: Migration from texi2html to texi2any

[lilypond]

Comment #7 on issue 1557 by address@hidden: Migration from texi2html to  
texi2any
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1557

I think I was too optimistic. IIUC texinfo does not allow to use gettext  
*to translate content*. See this thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2013-08/msg00002.html

It's a pity, because I just realized how it would be helpful while checking  
an out-of-date italian manual I'm maintaining (it's a gnome app, which uses  
mallard to build the documentation from xml - http://projectmallard.org/).

We often receive bug reports about wrong sentences in translated manuals  
not maintained anymore. gettext is smart enough to build a translated  
manual in a way that it contains also new paragraphs (in english); and  
perhaps it can also replace out-of-date (fuzzy) paragraphs with original  
english.

Any translated manual is "frozen" after a release and always available at  
doc/vX.YZ/. If I quit the italian translation of lilypond documentation  
(and nobody replaced me), I'd be happy to see the new versions of italian  
doc half english and half italian but without any old or wrong information.

I think that this is something it's worth considering when  
updating/changing our tools.


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