On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 04:51:16PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> This feels far too fragile to me. What would be wrong with just
> adding the translated manuals as extra lines in an htmlxref file? (These
> do not have to be in the same file as we support reading multiple htmlxref
> files now.) In your proposal, the htmlxref file has to be edited anyway,
> to add the language list. It also entails a backwards-incompatible
> change to the htmlxref format.
>
> EMACS = ${GS}/emacs/manual
> emacs mono ${EMACS}/html_mono/emacs.html
> emacs node ${EMACS}/html_node/emacs/
> #
> auth mono ${EMACS}/html_mono/auth.html
> auth node ${EMACS}/html_node/auth/
>
> Then "emacs" appears twice in the address of the "emacs" manual.
One time being "hidden" in a variable, in addition.
> I think this depends too much on where projects decide to install manuals.
Ok. Also something I didn't think about is that there could be an
additional LL directory somewhere that needs to be added.
Let's drop that idea. Projects could still generate automatically some
htmlxref files, which would be more practical as they know where the
files actually are and what their names are, send to us and we could add
them.
--
Pat
