more thoughts on underlays

diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
index e1cb0b5b92a0314ff277b35bdc48d710bbfe98b5..f28c8b188cd1bfbf1dea53b3d5b63ce0b12c1fa3 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
@@ -271,7 +271,22 @@ the file is present in srcdir.
 
 Problem with this is that it precludes using po to translate
 the basewiki (work which is well under way for Danish BTW),
 
 Problem with this is that it precludes using po to translate
 the basewiki (work which is well under way for Danish BTW),

-since the translated po files cannot really be used. --[[Joey]]
+since the translated po files cannot really be used.
+
+A further problem comes if one wants to use a non-English language as the
+`po_master_language`. It would be good to get a translated
+basewiki, taking po files from the underlay and using them as the primary
+page sources, but this plugin doesn't yet support that. 
+
+And, maybe it shouldn't? A user would not expect to see a po file when
+editing the index page of their wiki, just because they're using a
+different language. Instead, we might want to build localized .mdwn files
+for the basewiki, and then ikiwiki would just use that translated underlay.
+The when the user edits index, they get a nice mdwn file to start from.
+
+So, we seem to have two cases, in one po files from the underlay should be
+used, in the other not. Hmm. Support both?
+--[[Joey]] 

 
 Duplicate %links ?
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 Duplicate %links ?
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