pospell(1) User Manuals pospell(1)NAMEpospell - Run a program on the translation strings of a .po-file
SYNOPSISpospell [-l language ] [-fsv] -n pofile -p program [-- [ arguments...
]]
DESCRIPTIONpospell copies the translations from the pofile to a temporary file
(called the spellfile) and then calls program with its arguments. pro‐
gram is supposed to somehow change the spellfile. It is typically a
spell checker. Afterwards the possibly changed translations in spell‐
file is copied back into the pofile.
If pofile is specified as - then pospell will act as a filter, i.e.
standard input and standard output will be used.
%f in the arguments will be expanded to the name of the spellfile, or -
if the -f option is used. Use %% for a real % character.
All comment lines in the pofile are replaced with lines with "#" as the
only character in the spellfile. The msgid strings with original text
in the pofile are replaced with lines with ">" and "]" as the only
characters in the spellfile. The msgstr strings with file headers
(i.e. strings without corresponding msgid strings) are replaced with
lines with ")" and "]" as the only characters in the spellfile. Don't
change or remove these lines from the spellfile - they are used when
the spellfile and the pofile are merged together after running the pro‐
gram.
The normal msgstr strings are copied to the spellfile with some
changes: 1) The word msgstr and everything else before the string is
replaced by a "+" character. 2) Strings with C escape sequences fol‐
lowed by a letter like "one\ttwo" are split to parts like "one\t"
"two". 3) Leading whitespace in continuation lines is removed. The
changes of kind 1) and 2) are undone when the spellfile is copied back
into the pofile, but removed whitespace will not be restored.
OPTIONS-f The called program is a filter so don't make a temporary file,
but pipe the spellfile to its standard input and read it back
from its standard output.
-l language
Only translations with the indicated language code are copied to
the spellfile.
-s Quit with an error message if unrecognized items are found in
the pofile or spellfile.
-v Print the version and exit.
FILESpospell uses one or two temporary files with names given by the tmp‐
nam(3) function.
BUGS
If some system call gives an unexpected error pospell will stop immedi‐
ately with an error message leaving its temporary files.
AUTHOR
Byrial Jensen <byrial@image.dk>
SEE ALSO
The GNU gettext utilities.
newsbody(1).
Unix APRIL 2000 pospell(1)
