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[Martin . Quinson]

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Martin Quinson <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Po for anything
System name: po4a
Type: 2

Description:
The goal of the po4a (po for anything) project is to ease the work of free 
software translators. For now, their work is quite easy for program messages 
(thanks to po files and gettext), but nothing similar exist for documentation.

The goal of the project is to develop small program and scripts to extract the 
text which should be translated from where it is, put it in po files, and then, 
when the translators are done, reinject their work in the structure of the 
document. 

Using po files make it easy to track changes in the original document, without 
actually having to retranslate anything.

The main contributors of po4a are myself and Denis Barbier, both coordinator of 
the Debian localization team for french. I\'m also coordinator of the french 
team in the TP project.

For now, the scripts to convert po files from and to DebianDoc SGML 
documentation are quite usable, and we are working on scripts to convert from 
and to RFC822 text files (like the debconf templates are), pod (Perl 
documentation), wml (web meta language), texinfo and several others.

Until now, we used to devellop these scripts somehow alone, and put them on our 
respective web pages. We would like to ease our logistics problem.

The project is somehow related to gettext (of course), poxml (a tool developped 
by KDE to do what we want for LinuxDoc XML files), and intltools (a tool 
develloped by the Gnome guys to do that for .desktop files, and glade 
interfaces).

You may want to check this URL:
http://people.debian.org/~barbier/devel/po-debiandoc


Other Software Required:
For now, most of the scripts are done in Perl, and we of course rely on gettext 
to handle the po files (from the translator point of view).

Other Comments:
Licence: GPL for executable, LGPL for library (if any).