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NAME
     pospell - Run a program on the translation strings of a .po-file

SYNOPSIS
     pospell [-l language ] [-fsv] -n pofile -p program [-- [ arguments...  ]]

DESCRIPTION
     pospell copies the translations from the pofile to a temporary file (called
     the  spellfile) and then calls program with its arguments.  program is sup-
     posed to somehow change the spellfile.  It is typically  a  spell	checker.
     Afterwards  the  possibly	changed translations in spellfile is copied back
     into the pofile.

     If pofile is specified as - then pospell will act as a filter,  i.e.  stan-
     dard input and standard output will be used.

     %f  in the arguments will be expanded to the name of the spellfile, or - if
     the -f option is used. Use %% for a real % character.

     All comment lines in the pofile are replaced with lines  with  "#"  as  the
     only  character  in the spellfile.  The msgid strings with original text in
     the pofile are replaced with lines with ">" and "]" as the only  characters
     in the spellfile.	The msgstr strings with file headers (i.e. strings with-
     out  corresponding  msgid strings) are replaced with lines with ")" and "]"
     as the only characters in the spellfile.	Don't  change  or  remove  these
     lines  from the spellfile - they are used when the spellfile and the pofile
     are merged together after running the program.

     The normal msgstr strings are copied to the spellfile with some changes: 1)
     The word msgstr and everything else before the string is replaced by a  "+"
     character.   2)  Strings  with C escape sequences followed by a letter like
     "one\ttwo" are split to parts like "one\t" "two".	3) Leading whitespace in
     continuation lines is removed.  The changes of kind 1) and  2)  are  undone
     when  the	spellfile is copied back into the pofile, but removed whitespace
     will not be restored.

OPTIONS
     -f     The called program is a filter so don't make a temporary  file,  but
	    pipe  the  spellfile to its standard input and read it back from its
	    standard output.

     -l language
	    Only translations with the indicated language code are copied to the
	    spellfile.

     -s     Quit with an error message if unrecognized items are  found  in  the
	    pofile or spellfile.

     -v     Print the version and exit.

FILES
     pospell  uses  one or two temporary files with names given by the tmpnam(3)
     function.

BUGS
     If some system call gives an unexpected error pospell will stop immediately
     with an error message leaving its temporary files.

AUTHOR
     Byrial Jensen <byrial@image.dk>

SEE ALSO
     The GNU gettext utilities.

     newsbody(1).

Unix				   APRIL 2000			      pospell(1)

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