Hi Bento,
have a look at groff_mm and search for the section "Localization". There
you'll find more information.
Usually, if you specify the language on the command line as indicated in
man groff_mm, then you will not need any control over conditional
loading of macro files.
The manual explains
Hi Bento,
At 2024-11-09T16:34:21-0300, Bento Borges Schirmer wrote:
> Hey Oliver,
>
> Em sex., 8 de nov. de 2024 às 19:05, Oliver Corff via GNU roff
> typesetting system discussion escreveu:
> > Check, e.g. the macro files trans.tmac, de.tmac, sv.tmac, cs.tmac,
> > fr.tmac etc.in /usr/share/grof
Hey Oliver,
Em sex., 8 de nov. de 2024 às 19:05, Oliver Corff via GNU roff
typesetting system discussion escreveu:
> Check, e.g. the macro files trans.tmac, de.tmac, sv.tmac, cs.tmac,
> fr.tmac etc.in /usr/share/groff/1.23.0/tmac
>
> They demonstrate the mechanism how you can use string macros wi
Hi,
in my humble opinion, a solution to your problem (if I understood it
correctly) already exists. Perhaps a good starting point for writing
useful macros which output the desired text according to language is the
macro repository of groff.
Check, e.g. the macro files trans.tmac, de.tmac, sv.tm
Hey Adam and onf,
Thanks for the suggestion about po4a, it is good to know such thing
exists. But I didn't find any examples about it and I was not in the
mood to understand it, so I tried to be creative!
I kludged together the switch case example from groff documentation
[1] and now I have this
Bento Borges Schirmer writes:
> I want to translate my CV to english. [...] Do you know any design
> pattern, macro set or preprocessor that could handle this task in a
> manageable way?
po4a (https://po4a.org/, packaged in most distributions already) is one
approach to this -- you write the doc
Hi Bento,
On Thu Nov 7, 2024 at 7:38 PM CET, Bento Borges Schirmer wrote:
> I want to translate my CV to english. The simplest option would be to copy
> my document and just alter it. It would be no headache, since it is just
> one page. But maybe there is a smarter way?
>
> Do you know any design
