NAME
gtranslator -- a comfortable gettext po file editor with many bells and
whistles.
SYNOPSIS
gtranslator [ --help ] [ --version ] [ -a filename ] [ -e po-file ] [
-g geometry-string ] [ -l po-file-to-learn ] [ -b ] [ -s ]
DESCRIPTION
gtranslator is a comfortable gettext po file editor with many features
like special char featured editing, plural forms view, div. charset
support, comfortable prefs, list view of messages, regular expression
based search function, compile/update possiblities and much much more.
Of course all standard features of a good application like DnD, session
support, supplement files for mime types and menu items are present.
Instant comment view, a comfortable quick navigation messages table
with customizable colors, colorschemes, UTF-8 support, a high level of
preferizabilation and a personal learn buffer/translation memory with
autotranslation capabilities are the main features of gtranslator
besides the comfortable editing of the translation entries.
OPTIONS
-a --auto-translate=po-file
Autotranslates the given po file with the entries from the learn
buffer and exits afterwards.
-e --export-learn-buffer=po-file-to-export
Exports the learn buffer contents into the given plain gettext
po file and exits.
-g --geometry=geometry
Let’s you specify the geometry of gtranslator’s main window.
-b --build-informations
Shows the build specifications (date, time, versions,
directories) of gtranslator.
-l --learn=po-file-to-learn
Learns the given po file within the command line without
starting the GUI. The personal learn buffer is used as a
translation memory to autoaccomplish missing
translations/entries.
-s --learn-statistics
Print out some statistics and information about the learn buffer
of gtranslator on the commandline.
--display
With this option you can select on which screen gtranslator
should appear.
--help Shows you a little help autogenerated by GNOME and with the
options mentioned above.
--version
Prints out the version number of gtranslator.
--usage
Shows you the pill of options without an explanation.
FILES
~/.gconf/apps/gtranslator
Your personal gtranslator settings will be stored there.
~/.gtranslator
This directory is used by gtranslator for all it’s "private"
files (e.g. temporary files).
~/.gtranslator/colorschemes/
Your personal colorschemes can be placed in this directory --
gtranslator does also list the colorschemes in this directory in
the colorscheme selection box.
~/.gtranslator/etstates/
The state file for the messages table/tree is stored in this
directory.
~/.gtranslator/umtf/
Your personal learn buffers (in UMTF format) are stored in this
directory -- the learn buffer is used for auto translation
issues.
~/.gtranslator/files/
Temporary files used by gtranslator are stored in this directory
(mostly this directory should be empty).
LEARN BUFFER
The learn buffer is the implementation of a personal translation memory
(TM) in gtranslator. gtranslator uses the UMTF (a compressed XML file
which is normally quite good human readable if uncompressed) format for
storing it’s learned strings.
Your learned strings are then available for the autotranslation feature
of gtranslator where gtranslator automatically fills in the
corresponding and valuable translations for any message which has
already been learned previously. This results in a fairly high
percentage of prefilled/pretranslated messages.
The common and good style of working with the learn buffer and with the
autotranslation should be to learn the main po/translation files for
your language via gtranslator via calling gtranslator -n -l
po-file-to-learn on the command line; this will put the translated
strings from this po file into your personal learn buffer.
You should learn the main po files (for GNOME for example gnumeric,
nautilus, evolution or any other bigger, already translated package’s
po file) for your language); you can use a new script from the
gtranslator package to automatise this task a little bit: it’s “build-
gtranslator-learn-buffer.sh” which is installed into gtranslator’s
scripts directory which you can see by calling gtranslator -b and you
simply execute the script with it’s full path and simply follow the
informations on the command line for it.
Afterwards you can simply use the "Autotranslation" menu entry from the
GUI or use the "F10" hotkey to let gtranslator autotranslate all
missing translations from your personal learn buffer. This will ease
your translation work and make a big portion of the po files be
pre-translated.
With a fairly big personal learn buffer of about 2 MB you can achive
many pre-translated messages for a new project/translation.
If you want to use the stored learn buffer contents to produce a po
file with all the “learned” translations, you can also use the “export
learn buffer” capability of gtranslator to get a plain po file version
of the learn buffer.
USAGE EXAMPLES
Some examples for the options.
gtranslator -b
Shows you the real build specs/dates of gtranslator.
gtranslator -s
Give me statistics about the learn buffer of gtranslator.
gtranslator -n -l po-file-to-learn
Learns the given po file “po-file-to-learn” on the command line
without starting up the GUI.
gtranslator -a po-file
Autotranslates all missing entries from the learn buffer if
possible and exits.
gtranslator -e po-file-to-export
Exports your current learn buffer to the given plain gettext po
file (“po-file-to-export”).
gtranslator po-file
Starts gtranslator with the given po-file loaded on startup.
gtranslator -g “460x320+0+0”
Lets gtranslator appear on the left upper edge of the screen
“+0+0” and gtranslator is sized to “460x320” if possible -- if
gtranslator needs more size for it’s window contents, it’ll
expand itself to the necessary dimensions -- even if you defined
a smaller geometry string.
LICENSE
gtranslator is distributed under the GNU GPL V 2.0 or greater.
AUTHORS
Ross Golder <ross@kabalak.net>, Fatih Demir <kabalak@kabalak.net>
(previously also: Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis@kabalak.net>, Thomas
Ziehmer <thomas@kabalak.net>, Kevin Vandersloot <kfv101@psu.edu> and
Peeter Vois <peeter@kabalak.net>).
WEBSITE
http://www.gtranslator.org
BUGREPORTS
You can deliver bug reports to the gtranslator development team to our
bug base via
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gtranslator
VERSION
gtranslator 1.9.11 man-page