On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 10:26:29PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
> > Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 19:41:27 +0000
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>, [email protected],
> >  [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
> >  [email protected]
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 01:49:53PM +0000, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> > > Thinking out loud here, but @node currently requires the node-name 
> > > argument and has next/preious/up optional argument. It seems to me that 
> > > most of the issues would be fixed by adding a fifth argument that acts 
> > > like the cross-references' second argument (online-label). That way, 
> > > node-name can stay as it is and act as the pointer but is displayed as 
> > > "online-label", which is the translated part.
> > 
> > A document author can use @anchor to provide target text for a
> > cross-reference which does not appear in the reader-visible part
> > of the manual.  I don't see that extending the Texinfo language is
> > necessary.
> 
> Do you mean that a translated manual should have an @anchor for each
> @node, where nodes have translated names and the anchors give their
> original names in English?

Yes, exactly.

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