NAME
po4a-updatepo - update the translation (in po format) of documentation
SYNOPSIS
po4a-updatepo -f <fmt> (-m <master.doc>)+ (-p <XX.po>)+
(XX.po are the outputs, all others are inputs)
DESCRIPTION
The po4a (po for anything) project goal is to ease translations (and
more interestingly, the maintenance of translations) using gettext
tools on areas where they were not expected like documentation.
The "po4a-updatepo" script is in charge of updating po files to make
them reflect the changes made to the original documentation file. For
that, it converts the documentation file to a pot file, and call
msgmerge(1) on this new pot and on the provided po files.
It is possible to give more than one po file (if you want to update
several languages at once), and several documentation files (if you
want to store the translations of several documents in the same po
file).
If the master document has non-ascii characters, it will convert the po
files to utf-8 (if they weren't already), in order to allow non-
standard characters in a culture independent way.
COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
-f, --format
Format of the documentation you want to handle. Use the
--help-format option to see the list of available formats.
-m, --master
File(s) containing the master document to translate.
-M, --master-charset
Charset of the files containing the document to translate. Note
that all files must have the same charset.
-p, --po
Po file(s) to update. If these files do not exist, they are created
by "po4a-updatepo".
-o, --option
Extra option(s) to pass to the format plugin and other po4a
internal module. Specify each option in the 'name=value' format.
See the documentation of each plugin for more information about the
valid options and their meanings.
--no-previous
This option removes '--previous' from the options passed to
msgmerge. This permits to support versions of gettext earlier than
0.16.
--previous
This option adds '--previous' to the options passed to msgmerge.
It requires gettext 0.16 or later, and is activated by default.
--msgmerge-opt options
Extra options for msgmerge.
-h, --help
Show a short help message.
--help-format
List the documentation format handled 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.
--msgid-bugs-address email@address
Set the report address for msgid bugs. By default, the created POT
files have no Report-Msgid-Bugs-To fields.
--copyright-holder string
Set the copyright holder in the POT header. The default value is
"Free Software Foundation, Inc."
--package-name string
Set the package name for the POT header. The default is "PACKAGE".
--package-version string
Set the package version for the POT header. The default is
"VERSION".
SEE ALSO
po4a(7), po4a-gettextize(1), po4a-translate(1), po4a-normalize(1).
AUTHORS
Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
Nicolas Francois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Martin Quinson (mquinson#debian.org)
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2002-2010 by SPI, inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of GPL (see the COPYING file).