PO4A-TRANSLATE.1P

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (1)
Updated: 2024-06-17
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NAME

po4a-translate - convert a PO file back to documentation format

SYNOPSIS

po4a-translate -f fmt -m master.doc -p XX.po -l XX.doc

(XX.doc is the output, all others are inputs)

DESCRIPTION

Cilj projekta po4a (PO za bilo što) je olakšati prevođenje (i što je još zanimljivije, održavati prijevode) koristeći gettext alate na područjima za koja se od njih ne očekuje, poput dokumentacije.

The po4a-translate script is in charge of converting the translation (which was done in a PO file) back into the documentation format. The provided PO file should be the translation of the POT file which was produced by po4a-gettextize(1).

OPTIONS

-f, --format: Format of the documentation you want to handle. Use the --help-format option to see the list of available formats.
-a, --addendum: Add a file to the resulting file (to put translator's name or a section "About this translation", for example). The first line of the file to insert should be a PO4A header indicating where it should be added (see section HOWTO add extra text to translations in po4a(7)).
-A, --addendum-charset: Charset of the addenda. Note that all the addenda should be in the same charset.
-m, --master: File containing the master document to translate.
-M, --master-charset: Charset of the file containing the document to translate.
-l, --localized: File where the localized (translated) document should be written.
-L, --localized-charset: Charset of the file containing the localized document.
-p, --po: File from which the message catalog should be read.
-o, --option: Extra option(s) to pass to the format plugin. See the documentation of each plugin for more information about the valid options and their meanings. For example, you could pass '-o tablecells' to the AsciiDoc parser, while the text parser would accept '-o tabs=split'.
-k, --keep: Minimal threshold for translation percentage to keep (i.e. write) the resulting file (default: 80). I.e. by default, files have to be translated at least at 80% to get written.
-w, --width: Column at which we should wrap the resulting file if the format supports it (default: 76).
-h, --help: Show a short help message.
--help-format: List the documentation formats understood by po4a.
-V, --version: Display the version of the script and exit.
-v, --verbose: Increase the verbosity of the program.
-d, --debug: Output some debugging information.
--porefs type[,wrap|nowrap]: Specify the reference format. Argument type can be one of never to not produce any reference, file to only specify the file without the line number, counter to replace line number by an increasing counter, and full to include complete references (default: full).
Argument can be followed by a comma and either wrap or nowrap keyword. References are written by default on a single line. The wrap option wraps references on several lines, to mimic gettext tools (xgettext and msgmerge). This option will become the default in a future release, because it is more sensible. The nowrap option is available so that users who want to keep the old behavior can do so.

Adding content (beside translations) to generated files

To add some extra content to the generated document beside what you translated (like the name of the translator, or an "About this translation" section), you should use the --addendum option.

The first line of the addendum must be a header indicating where to put it in the document (it can be before or after a given part of the document). The rest of the file will be added verbatim to the resulting file without further processing.

Note that if po4a-translate fails to add one of the given files, it discards the whole translation (because the missing file could be the one indicating the author, what would prevent the users to contact him to report bugs in the translation).

The header has a pretty rigid syntax. For more information on how to use this feature and how it works, please refer to the po4a(7) man page.

AUTHORS

 Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
 Martin Quinson (mquinson#debian.org)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of GPL v2.0 or later (see the COPYING file).

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SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
Adding content (beside translations) to generated files
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This document was created by using the manual pages.
Time: 20:30:46 GMT, June 17, 2024

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