On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:50:14PM +0100, Branden Robinson wrote: > tag 278897 + moreinfo > thanks > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 03:47:03PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:17:14PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > I don't think all of the relevant documentation should be included, > > > but it wasn't clear (for someone who doesn't know the internals of > > > X) if these translations were specific to XTerm or were general to > > > X resources. In the latter case, the man page could still point to > > > the relevant documentation (which should be written if it doesn't > > > exist yet). > > > > The translations resource is a feature of Xt (X Toolkits Intrinsics), > > and is also used in other code such as the Athena widgets. > > > > apropos "Translations" shows a place to start: > > > > XtAugmentTranslations XtParseTranslationTable (3) - manage translation tables > > Is this not a bug, then, but rather a misunderstanding of how translation > table resources work? yes (I think so). The manpages, by the way, don't contain a comprehensive discussion of the resource mechanism - that's in the files from the doc/specs tree. But my point here was that the manpages would show where to start finding the information - that's what I do if I find something about these which puzzles me. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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