On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 at 13:29, Jérémie Tarot <silopo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It surely can be better organized. I'd personally rather restructure all
> its content and promote it to top level while demoting all the standard
> entries to some kind of "System" entry.

I moved the docs into a sub-directory.

> 1000% ! Can have all the pages you need opened in any number of
> tabs/windows which is a must. Only point where PDFs may win is for
> searches. Heaven would be a small embedded, offline, search engine...
> Doesn't Debian already has a package available for this [1]? May "only"
> need to strip others packages docs out of the index ?

That's an interesting possibility to investigate for the future.

> The French docs are very out of date,

> To say the least ! That's what leads me here in the first place with the
> will to make this change :)
> Already forked and locally cloned the project to wet my toes before
> posting. First thoughts are these:
> - French translation, well, most certainly easier and faster to dump it all
> and restart from scratch (all files have to be renamed, missing files, etc)

I have done some work to enable multilingual documentation in .comp
files, and translated manually-written manpages (should) be
automatically handled.
I seem to have forgotten to merge the multilingual halcompile changes.
https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/commit/5dc2ef3ce76942a66d2b39d6e2542cb8ea51253c

> - Should the mixed language hierarchy be kept or should language specific
> subdirectories/hierarchies be built ? Too new to this to grasp the
> pros/cons of each organisation.

Possibly an issue to worry about later?

-- 
atp
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