Re: Broken zh_CN cross-references

2015-11-18 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On 4 November 2015 at 05:00, Gavin Smith wrote: > I've implemented something, and it gives good output for the help2man > translation, as far as I can see (not that I can read Chinese). I've > also fixed the @w issue. Thanks Gavin. I'm in a similar position WRT only

Re: Broken zh_CN cross-references

2015-11-03 Thread Gavin Smith
On 2 November 2015 at 22:32, Karl Berry wrote: > 1) In principle, there should be no line breaks within @w. That is the > purpose of @w. (Even if fixed, I agree that's hardly a practical > solution for the problem at hand, of course.) > > 2) Why is makeinfo considering

Re: Broken zh_CN cross-references

2015-11-03 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 23:06:19 +0900 > From: Norbert Preining > Cc: Brendan O'Dea , Texinfo , > Karl Berry > > > Chinese text isn't written with spaces between words, so makeinfo > > allows a break anywhere.

Re: Broken zh_CN cross-references

2015-11-03 Thread Gavin Smith
On 2 November 2015 at 16:15, Gavin Smith wrote: > Fixing the program that generates the > Info files not to output the line breaks should be possible (i.e. an > implicit @w around the Chinese characters). I've implemented something, and it gives good output for the

Re: Broken zh_CN cross-references

2015-11-03 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:57:42 + > From: Gavin Smith > Cc: Norbert Preining , "Brendan O'Dea" , > Texinfo , > Karl Berry > > > http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/ > > > > As

Re: Broken zh_CN cross-references

2015-11-03 Thread Gavin Smith
On 3 November 2015 at 15:29, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 23:06:19 +0900 >> From: Norbert Preining >> Cc: Brendan O'Dea , Texinfo , >> Karl Berry >> >> > Chinese text isn't

Re: Broken zh_CN cross-references

2015-11-03 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 08:06:30PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:57:42 + > > From: Gavin Smith > > Cc: Norbert Preining , "Brendan O'Dea" > > , Texinfo , > > Karl Berry

Re: Broken zh_CN cross-references

2015-11-03 Thread Norbert Preining
> As far as I know there are some Japanese characters with a grammatical > function that shouldn't appear at the start of a line. That's probably Yes, there are - at least for Japanese I can give explanations (but not for Chinese). The basic case is that between *kanji* one can break, between

Re: Broken zh_CN cross-references

2015-11-03 Thread Norbert Preining
> Chinese text isn't written with spaces between words, so makeinfo > allows a break anywhere. Which is completely correct. Norbert PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan

Broken zh_CN cross-references

2015-11-02 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Hey folks. I have a translation issue: I'm generating a zh_CN localised page using po4a and the word splitting is breaking some of the cross-references. Example .texi and .info files attached. To reproduce: open the .info file, and jump to the node: "调用 help2man". The first cross reference in

Re: Broken zh_CN cross-references

2015-11-02 Thread Karl Berry
1) In principle, there should be no line breaks within @w. That is the purpose of @w. (Even if fixed, I agree that's hardly a practical solution for the problem at hand, of course.) 2) Why is makeinfo considering that mid-text location to be a valid place to break the line? I don't see a