On 31 July 2015 at 23:32, Kevin Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you think it would be difficult to implement? We already do this in > our build process, so there should be no problem sending some code > (I'm not a Perl guru, but I assume it's not too hard).
No, but the difficulty of it isn't what's important. I don't think we should promote this as a possible preference, because then many people may use it without realising the downsides (the impact on inter-manual references). I think being able to customize it through an API is a good compromise, then people can customize filenames as they like, not just lower-case but allow whatever characters they like, use upper-case, transliterate to Egyptian hieroglyphics, whatever. It would be hard to argue that increasing flexibility of use through the customization API would be a bad thing, but at the same time it would be a bad idea to encourage or support arbitrary usages within the official project. I'm going to look at what Patrice said to see if I can work out how it could be used for your purposes.
