Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> writes:
> Mathieu Lirzin (2015-08-28 00:04 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Here is a first attempt. It doesn't feel right to me but fornow I don't
>> know what to do without duplicating code or reorganizing the world. The
>> problem is that translations are handle in (guix ui) so we need to
>> regenerate texi->plain-text.
>
> I don't understand what you mean by 'regenerate texi->plain-text'.
Maybe the correct expression should have been "reiterate
texi->plain-text". What I meant was that the process of converting from
texinfo to plain-text need to be done in (guix ui) too, because
translated package description are texinfo fragment.
>> - (define (description->recutils str)
>> - (let ((str (P_ str)))
>> + (define (description->recutils str)
>> + (let ((str (texi->plain-text (P_ str))))
>
> IIUC there is no need to use 'texi->plain-text' here. Instead you can
> replace 'package-description' with 'package-description-string' in the
> body of 'package->recutils'. Or did I miss anything?
That was my first solution before realizing that this will lead to a
problem that this unrealistic example illustrates.
;; with fr_FR.UTF-8 locale
(package-description foo)
=> "socks @code{foo}."
(package-description-string foo)
=> "socks `foo'.\n\n"
(N_ (package-description foo))
=> "chaussettes @code{foo}."
(N_ (package-description-string foo))
=> "socks `foo'.\n\n"
In the last evaluation gettext was unable to find the translated string
corresponding to msgid "socks `foo'.\n\n".
> Also I think the same replacement should be done in (guix scripts
> lint) ...
I think more can be done in (guix scripts lint). For example checking
if invoking 'package-description-string' fails which would indicate that
the markup is not correctly used.
> ... and (guix scripts package).
This script uses 'package-description' to search in it. IIUC it was
suggested by Ludo to search using the raw Texinfo fragment and to
display using the plain-text version.
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00609.html>
Thank you very much for your reply, :)
--
Mathieu Lirzin
