Is togglebutton_hint translatable?

[mgeier]

I'm not quite sure how Sphinx's translation system works, sorry for the naive question.

It's nice to have the togglebutton_hint string configurable, but I'm not sure whether that's enough (or the right way) to make it translatable.

There are other Sphinx features like copyright, which have a conf.py option but also have special markup in the HTML template in order to be translatable. At least that's how I understand it ...

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[choldgraf]

It should be translateable but is not currently.

I believe we'd need to use this pattern:

https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-book-theme/blob/master/sphinx_book_theme/topbar.html#L20

here:

https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-togglebutton/blob/master/sphinx_togglebutton/init.py#L16

(and access the translate function in Python via context['translate'])

[mgeier]

The place I was referring to is https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/0476e1cea93b587e3c0ab295aa20b2b9f0f81a34/sphinx/themes/basic/layout.html#L206 using the trans thingie.

I don't know which is more appropriate here.

[choldgraf]

ahh right - perhaps here is another pattern we could follow:

https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-copybutton/blob/master/sphinx_copybutton/_static/copybutton.js_t#L25

https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-copybutton/blob/master/sphinx_copybutton/_static/copybutton.js_t#L2

[mgeier]

This seems to work outside the Sphinx translation mechanism, right? I would prefer staying compatible with Sphinx's stuff and not reinvent translation.

[choldgraf]

well it's not using Sphinx's translation mechanism directly, but seems to be piggy-backing on the language that Sphinx sets in the environment. (note: I didn't implement that above, another contributor did, so I am trying to backwards engineer this as much as you are :-) )