[bt-devel] Updating PO files of translations

Joachim Ansorg bt-devel@crosswire.org
Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:23:10 +0100


Hi Fred!

I spend some time to add some functionality to the Makefiles which helps you 
to update the po files automatically so old translations are not lost.

The command "make po-files" in a directory like "de/handbook/" updates the po 
files in de/handbook/po/ using the POT template in en/handbook/pot/.
On my side this works. I hope this helps you working on the files. You spent 
so much time on the docbook files so I like to help you.

Since the directory en/ has no .po translation files but .pot templates 
running "make pot-files" in a dir like en/handbook/ updates the .pot files in 
en/handbook/pot/. I hope this is useful.

I also added "make html-files" which generated the HTML files using meinproc.

So, if you update the .docbook files in en/handbook/unicode/ you have to run 
now only the following commands in en/handbook/ to update the other files:
	make pot-files
	make html-files

If the translators get their files to translate them I run
	make po-files

and after I got the po files back I run
	make unicode-files
	make html-files

to create the new docbook and html files.	

Please let me know if something doesn't work as expected! I hope it's useful 
for you,

Joachim