[Po4a-devel] Support for .de, .if and other groff code requests

[Martin Quinson]

Salut François,

All those changes seem very interesting. I hope to see them soon into the
CVS. As I said on irc, this is quite brutal, but as long as it is an option,
I'm sure other people may find it useful.

Thanks for your work,
Mt.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 11:05:58PM +0200, nicolas.francois at centraliens.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've added some options to the man module:
>   * verbatim_groff_code
>     The .de, .ie and .if sections are copied as is from the original to
>     the translated document
>   * translate_groff_code
>     A string is made for each .de, .ie and .if sections, and is proposed
>     for the translation
> 
> Then I needed other options to specify the behavior of these new commands:
>   * untranslated, noarg, translate_joined, translate_each
>     lists of coma-separated commands
> 
>   * no_wrap
>     list of coma-separated couples begin:end, where begin and end are
>     commands that delimit the begin and end of a no_wrap section (no test
>     is done to ensure that an end command match its begin command; any end
>     command stop the no_wrap mode; it is just more practical to specify
>     them in a couple)
> 
>   * inline
>     This option indicate that the paragraph must not be split. The
>     string to translate will look like "foo E<.bar baz qux> quux", where
>     foo is the command that should be inlined.
> 
> With these new options, I was able to translate (well...po4a-gettextize)
> some man pages from the 3X section (and also to beat my msgids per PO
> highest score;)
> 
> I don't think this will work perfectly for every situation, but it should
> allow to use po4a on most of the pages refused to po4a because of a .de,
> .ie or .if section.
> 
> Before committing it, I would like to have your opinion.
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