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#1557 Migration from texi2html to texi2any
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2016-02-03
2011-03-11
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Originally created by: *anonymous
Originally created by: Carl.D.S...@gmail.com
texi2html version 5.0 has been released (June 2010).
We should see if it will allow us to simplify our texi2html.init file
See issue 1000 for a related issue.
Originally posted by: pnorcks@gmail.com
Huh, that's interesting. I never saw an announcement about that, but it's clearly in the release directory at savannah...
However, texi2html is now integrated with texinfo, and all major developments are probably happening there.
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/texinfo-commits/
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Originally posted by: pnorcks@gmail.com
To follow up, apparently texi2html is no longer actively developed; Patrice is working on a new project to replace it (also written in Perl).
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2011-02/msg00013.html
Originally posted by: fedel...@gmail.com
another follow up:
http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#texi2html
it seems that texi2any has replaced texi2html
Originally posted by: lemzw...@googlemail.com
It is good for us that texi2html is frozen; this probably means that our setup works just fine. On the other hand, texi2html is no longer compiled or installed by default in texinfo 5; you must explicitly enable compilation by modifying `configure.ac'.
We have to bite the bullet and do a transition to texi2any in the near future.
Originally posted by: fedel...@gmail.com
I'm updating the title of the issue.
This migration could be interesting also for translators (the Gettext framework is used):
https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Internationalization-of-Document-Strings.html
Summary: Migration from texi2html to texi2any
Originally posted by: fedel...@gmail.com
I think I was too optimistic. IIUC texinfo does not allow to use gettext *to translate content*. See this thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2013-08/msg00002.html
It's a pity, because I just realized how it would be helpful while checking an out-of-date italian manual I'm maintaining (it's a gnome app, which uses mallard to build the documentation from xml - http://projectmallard.org/).
We often receive bug reports about wrong sentences in translated manuals not maintained anymore. gettext is smart enough to build a translated manual in a way that it contains also new paragraphs (in english); and perhaps it can also replace out-of-date (fuzzy) paragraphs with original english.
Any translated manual is "frozen" after a release and always available at doc/vX.YZ/. If I quit the italian translation of lilypond documentation (and nobody replaced me), I'd be happy to see the new versions of italian doc half english and half italian but without any old or wrong information.
I think that this is something it's worth considering when updating/changing our tools.
In July 2015 Graham launched a mentoring opportunity for someone interested in this project:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2015-07/msg00204.html
This should be the repository:
https://github.com/barrykp/lilypond-texinfo
Unfortunately, it seems that it didn't go too far...