1PO4A-UPDATEPO(1p) Po4a Tools PO4A-UPDATEPO(1p)
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6 po4a-updatepo - update the translation (in PO format) of documentation
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9 po4a-updatepo -f fmt (-m master.docE)+ (-p XX.po)+
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14 The po4a (PO for anything) project goal is to ease translations (and
15 more interestingly, the maintenance of translations) using gettext
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18 The po4a-updatepo script is in charge of updating PO files to make them
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33 -f, --format
34 Format of the documentation you want to handle. Use the
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38 File(s) containing the master document to translate.
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41 Charset of the files containing the document to translate. Note
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45 PO file(s) to update. If these files do not exist, they are created
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49 Extra option(s) to pass to the format plugin and other po4a
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55 This option removes --previous from the options passed to msgmerge.
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59 This option adds --previous to the options passed to msgmerge. It
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82 not produce any reference, noline to not specify the line number
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88 keyword. References are written by default on a single line. The
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95 --msgid-bugs-address email@address
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100 Set the copyright holder in the POT header. The default value is
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104 Set the package name for the POT header. The default is "PACKAGE".
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107 Set the package version for the POT header. The default is
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111 po4a-gettextize(1), po4a-normalize(1), po4a-translate(1), po4a(7)
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114 Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
115 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
116 Martin Quinson (mquinson#debian.org)
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119 Copyright 2002-2012 by SPI, inc.
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121 This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
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