Re: WML wml::std::lang questions

[Tobias Oetiker <nospam@thanx>]

Yesterday you sent me mail regarding Re: WML wml::std::lang questions:

*> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
*> 
*> > Hi,
*> > 
*> > I am trying to setup a new multilanguage site. Now I think I do have
*> > understood it more or less, but I have a problem in getting the
*> > *.wml files to look nice. They are going to be edited by not so technical
*> > people. At the moment I have the impression that I must put a
*> > 
*> > #!wml -o(ALL-LANG_*)uLANG_EN:index.html \
*> >       -o(ALL-LANG_*)uLANG_ES:index.es.html \
*> >       -o(ALL-LANG_*)uLANG_FR:index.fr.html \
*> >       -o(ALL-LANG_*)uLANG_DE:index.de.html \
*> >       -o(ALL-LANG_*)uLANG_IT:index.it.html 
*> > 
*> > at the start of every file ... 
*> 
*> Hi Tobias,
*> 
*> It does not really matter, but -o(ALL-LANG_*)+LANG_EN is easier to
*> understand. It means all slices minus the ones relative to linguas
*> plus LANG_EN. Even not technical people will find this simple :o)
*> Moreover, you can replace ``index'' by ``%BASE'' as explained in wml(1).
*> 
*> But it is only available on the shebang line, so i see no solution
*> to your problem (except with a makefile).
*> 
*> One could write -o(ALL-LANG_*)+LANG_IT:%BASE.it.html in the .wmlrc
*> files, this feature will go in my to-do list. And i should mention the
*> %BASE trick in wml::std::lang(3), i presume.

%BASE is exactly what I was looking for ... hmpf ... would you beleive if I
told you that I DID read that manpage ? ... :-( oh well ... sorry

tobi

*> 
*> Cheers
*> 
*>    Denis
*> 
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