On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 06:48:18AM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> I'm working on a manual written in texinfo and I found a string similar to
> this:
>
> @xref{node name} and following.
>
> Once compiled, the document becomes ???See "node name" and following???.
>
> When translating to a language that puts the verb at the end, like Japanese
> (and I guess German and others would have the same issue) the final document
> must be rendered as:
>
> ???"node name" and following See???
>
> My understanding of @xref is that it is not possible, so we should avoid to
> put stuff after "node name".
Use @ref instead of @xref if you need to be flexible with the word
order.
> Also, does makeinfo use "translation tables" to create the proper localized
> string for such devices as xref?
Yes, that's right. Use the @documentlanguage command for this.
