Re: @format and @display in HTML output

[Torsten Bronger]

Halloechen!

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>     P.S.: You can see another small problem here: It says "Knoten"
>     instead of "node" due to my locale; therefore I wrote
>        LANG=en ; makeinfo --output=$@ --no-split --html $<
>
> I'm not sure what bug you're reporting.  It said "Knoten" even though
> LANG=en (that would be a problem :), or it said "Knoten" when LANG=de?
>
> If the latter, that is intentional, the theory being that if LANG=de,
> you're writing a German document.

The latter is true.  I suspected something like this.  Therefore I
avoided the word 'bug' and didn't submit a report of its own.

> Admittedly this is not 100% correct logic, but there has to be some way
> to specify German (or whatever language) translations of the output
> words, and that was the simplest way to get things going.  If you're
> writing an English document with LANG=de in general, then yes, you'll
> need to reset LANG=en.
>
> There is a @documentlanguage command which would be the best way, but at
> present that unfortunately does not affect the translations.

Yes, I tested @documentlanguage before I reset LANG.  It would be
indeed the best way.  I was just a little bit startled at first when
I saw the German words.  But since it works now ...

Thank you for the explanation.

Tschoe,
Torsten.