po4a-updatepo - update the translation (in PO format) of documentation

        Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
        Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
        Martin Quinson (mquinson#debian.org)

       Copyright 2002-2023 by SPI, inc.

       This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of  GPL  v2.0  or
       later (see the COPYING file).

perl v5.38.2                                       2024-08-28                                PO4A-UPDATEPO.1P(1)

       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, this script will convert the PO files to UTF-8 (if they
       weren't already), for a transparent handling of non-standard characters.

       po4a-updatepo - update the translation (in PO format) of documentation

-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.  See  the  documentation of each plugin for more
           information about the valid options and their meanings. For example, you could pass  '-o  tablecells'
           to the AsciiDoc parser, while the text parser would accept '-o tabs=split'.

       --no-previous
           This  option  removes  --previous  from  the  options  passed to msgmerge.  This helps supporting old
           versions of gettext (before v0.16).

       --previous
           This option adds --previous to the options passed to msgmerge.  It requires gettext  0.16  or  later,
           and is activated by default.

       --msgmerge-optoptions
           Extra options for msgmerge(1).

       -h, --help
           Show a short help message.

       --help-format
           List the documentation formats understood 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.

       --porefstype[,wrap|nowrap]
           Specify the reference format. Argument type can be one of never to not produce any reference, file to
           only  specify  the  file  without  the  line  number, counter to replace line number by an increasing
           counter, and full to include complete references (default: full).

           Argument can be followed by a comma and either wrap or nowrap keyword.   References  are  written  by
           default  on a single line.  The wrap option wraps references on several lines, to mimic gettext tools
           (xgettext and msgmerge).  This option will become the default in a future release, because it is more
           sensible.  The nowrap option is available so that users who want to keep the old behavior can do so.

       --wrap-pono|newlines|number (default: 76)
           Specify how the po file should be wrapped. This gives the choice between either files that are nicely
           wrapped but could lead to git conflicts, or files that are easier to handle automatically, but harder
           to read for humans.

           Historically, the gettext suite has reformatted the po files at the 77th column for  cosmetics.  This
           option  specifies the behavior of po4a. If set to a numerical value, po4a will wrap the po file after
           this column and after newlines in the content. If set to newlines, po4a will only split the msgid and
           msgstr after newlines in the content. If set to no, po4a will not wrap  the  po  file  at  all.   The
           wrapping of the reference comments is controlled by the --porefs option.

           Note  that  this  option has no impact on how the msgid and msgstr are wrapped, i.e.  on how newlines
           are added to the content of these strings.

       --msgid-bugs-addressemail@address
           Set the report address for msgid bugs. By default, the created POT files have no Report-Msgid-Bugs-To
           fields.

       --copyright-holderstring
           Set the copyright holder in the POT header. The default value is "Free Software Foundation, Inc."

       --package-namestring
           Set the package name for the POT header. The default is "PACKAGE".

       --package-versionstring
           Set the package version for the POT header. The default is "VERSION".

po4a-gettextize(1), po4a-normalize(1), po4a-translate(1), po4a(7)

po4a-updatepo-ffmt (-mmaster.doc)+ (-pXX.po)+

       (XX.po are the outputs, all others are inputs)