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INTLTOOL-PREPARE(8) System Manager's Manual INTLTOOL-PREPARE(8) NAME intltool-prepare - Prepare software to make use of intltool SYNOPSIS intltool-prepare [option] [KEYWORD]... DESCRIPTION For software packages that include some specific type of translatable files (such as .desktop and .soundlist), before they make use of intltool, trans- lators have to dig through them one by one, and add their localization into each file. This process is error prone, since translators may include typ- ing errors, or add their localization in wrong encoding. Besides, transla- tors may not alwas know other files (beside .po files) are translatable. intltool avoids all the problems above by extracting strings inside those translatable files into po template (.pot) file. All translators need to care about is just translating po files. Afterwards, intltool-merge(8) will merge localized strings into those files. Before your software becomes intltool-aware, a few issues have to be sorted out, and intltool-prepare tries to take care of all of them. intltool-pre- pare will: * Extract all localized strings in .desktop style files (including ".desk- top", ".soundlist", ".keys" and ".directory") into corresponding po files. * Convert the translatable files into templates that don't contain any lo- calization. * Add the list of template files above into POTFILES.in. * Add the list of old translatable files into .cvsignore (since they will be generated by intltool later). * Add the rules for generating these files into Makefile.am. NOTE: You must change working directory to the top level source directory before running intltool-prepare. OPTIONS KEYWORD is a list of additional keywords beside "Name", "Comment" and "de- scription". intltool-prepare will recognize any line starting with those KEYWORD and extract localized strings after equal sign ("="). -x --verbose Be verbose to give user additional feedback. -v --version Show version information. -h --help Show usage and basic help information. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to http://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool AUTHOR Darin Adler <darin@bentspoon.com> Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth@gnu.org> Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com> SEE ALSO intltoolize(8), intltool-update(8), intltool-extract(8), intltool-merge(8) intltool 2003-08-02 INTLTOOL-PREPARE(8)
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