[Gpg4win-devel] xnames in the manual

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:47, jan-oliver.wagner at intevation.de said:

> labels are internal only while xnames are visible to the user.

But only as URLs and that is something a user does not realy care about.
URLs are usually just clicked or cut+pasted, so the actual language does
not matter.  Often URLs atre only disntingisghed by a number or some hex
string.

> names as possible. Translations may not aloways make sense when done 1:1
> and you will get problems to related a filename to the actual chapter.

Well, but it is unlikely that you change the structure of a book
(i.e. the arrangement of chapters) depending on the language.

> And what happens if an english chapter name changes? Should all translations
> follow this change? This could create consistency problems because it is not

No, just keep them as long the chapter is about the same thing.

> With crosslinking you mean, when I visit a german page for node X, I can not
> easily jump to another language of node X?
> Thats true. But IMHO the other benefits weight more.

Wikipedia has this feature and that is very useful.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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