Follow-up Comment #1, bug #61123 (project groff):
As part of this I want to expose the man(1) volume titles to translation as
well. Structurally, comparing the an.tmac package to the other full-service
packages {e,m,om,s}.tmac, there is a clear disparity.
I wish to pre-acknowledge that Ingo thinks this is a bad idea, or did within
the past couple of years; his view is that man pages should not be translated,
because, IIRC, anyone with the technical competence to read Unix man pages
should have at least a moderate command of English.
That's policy, however, not mechanism, and distributors like Debian have
clearly made a different choice. In fact, I think I can mine Debian's package
repository for translations of the trivial number of strings for which an.tmac
requires translation.
. ds an-section "\\$2\"
. ie (\\n[.$] > 4) .ds an-extra3 "\\$5\"
. el \{ .ie '\\$2'1' .ds an-extra3 General Commands Manual\"
. el \{ .ie '\\$2'2' .ds an-extra3 System Calls Manual\"
. el \{ .ie '\\$2'3' .ds an-extra3 Library Functions Manual\"
. el \{ .ie '\\$2'4' .ds an-extra3 Kernel Interfaces Manual\"
. el \{ .ie '\\$2'5' .ds an-extra3 File Formats Manual\"
. el \{ .ie '\\$2'6' .ds an-extra3 Games Manual\"
. el \{ .ie '\\$2'7' .ds an-extra3 Miscellaneous Information Manual\"
. el \{ .ie '\\$2'8' .ds an-extra3 System Manager's Manual\"
. el \{ .ie '\\$2'9' .ds an-extra3 Kernel Developer's Manual\"
. el .ds an-extra3 \" empty
. \}\}\}\}\}\}\}\}\}
I don't propose to deal with mdoc at this time; it's a heavier lift.
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