1PO4A-GETTEXTIZE(1p)               Po4a Tools               PO4A-GETTEXTIZE(1p)
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NAME

6       po4a-gettextize - convert an original file (and its translation) to a
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SYNOPSIS

10       po4a-gettextize -f fmt -m master.doc [-l XX.doc] -p XX.po
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12       (XX.po is the output, all others are inputs)
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DESCRIPTION

15       The po4a (PO for anything) project goal is to ease translations (and
16       more interestingly, the maintenance of translations) using gettext
17       tools on areas where they were not expected like documentation.
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19       The po4a-gettextize script is in charge of converting documentation
20       files to PO files.  If you start a new translation, po4a-gettextize
21       will extract the translatable strings from the documentation file and
22       write a POT file from it.
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24       If you already have a translated file, po4a-gettextize will try to
25       extract the translations it contains and put them in place in the
26       written PO file. Be warned that very few intelligence is used in this
27       process: the Nth string of the translated file is supposed to be the
28       translation of the Nth string in the original. If it's not the case,
29       you're dead. That's why it is very important that both files share
30       exactly the same structure.
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32       However, po4a-gettextize will diagnose your death by detecting any
33       desynchronisation between files, and reporting where they occur. In
34       that case, you should edit manually the files to solve the reported
35       disparity. Even if no error were reported, you should check carefully
36       that the generated PO file is correct (i.e. that each msgstr is the
37       translation of the associated msgid, and not the one before or after).
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39       Even if the script manages to do its job without any apparent problem,
40       it still marks all extracted translations as fuzzy, to make sure that
41       the translator will have a look at them, and detect any remaining
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44       If the master document has non-ASCII characters, the new generated PO
45       file will be in UTF-8, in order to allow non-standard characters in a
46       culture independent way. Else (if the master document is completely in
47       ASCII), the generated PO will use the encoding of the translated input
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OPTIONS

51       -f, --format
52           Format of the documentation you want to handle. Use the
53           --help-format option to see the list of available formats.
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55       -m, --master
56           File containing the master document to translate. You can use this
57           option multiple times if you want to gettextize multiple documents.
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59       -M, --master-charset
60           Charset of the file containing the document to translate.
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62       -l, --localized
63           File containing the localized (translated) document. If you
64           provided multiple master files, you may wish to provide multiple
65           localized file by using this option more than once.
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67       -L, --localized-charset
68           Charset of the file containing the localized document.
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70       -p, --po
71           File where the message catalog should be written. If not given, the
72           message catalog will be written to the standard output.
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74       -o, --option
75           Extra option(s) to pass to the format plugin. Specify each option
76           in the 'name=value' format. See the documentation of each plugin
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79       -h, --help
80           Show a short help message.
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82       --help-format
83           List the documentation formats understood by po4a.
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85       -V, --version
86           Display the version of the script and exit.
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88       -v, --verbose
89           Increase the verbosity of the program.
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91       -d, --debug
92           Output some debugging information.
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94       --msgid-bugs-address email@address
95           Set the report address for msgid bugs. By default, the created POT
96           files have no Report-Msgid-Bugs-To fields.
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98       --copyright-holder string
99           Set the copyright holder in the POT header. The default value is
100           "Free Software Foundation, Inc."
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102       --package-name string
103           Set the package name for the POT header. The default is "PACKAGE".
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105       --package-version string
106           Set the package version for the POT header. The default is
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SEE ALSO

110       po4a-normalize(1), po4a-translate(1), po4a-updatepo(1), po4a(7)
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AUTHORS

113        Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
114        Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
115        Martin Quinson (mquinson#debian.org)
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118       Copyright 2002-2012 by SPI, inc.
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120       This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
121       under the terms of GPL (see the COPYING file).
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