Transifex and the manual files

[Marco Ciampa]

On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 09:46:03PM +0200, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have found out, that the manual files that are offered for translation
> on Transifex are basically an abandoned experiment by Slava. This makes
> me very sad, because currently nobody knows that they are not actually
> useful, and quite some people have put their time into translating them.
> 
> The deal was that Slava wanted to set up translation using the po4a
> tool, but somehow he realized that it breaks roff formatting on which
> the help system generator relies during po -> man conversion, and, as a
> result, the help files can't be generated from these manual pages.
> 
> At the moment, I have stopped the Transifex interface from accepting
> translations for these resources until someone can figure out how to set
> up a working man -> po -> man conversion cycle.
> 
> Are there any volunteers to look into that? Maybe I should make an
> announcement via the Transifex system as well. 

I can try to do it. I already use po4a for another project (KiCad).
Before this email I was even thinking to suggest the use of po4a to this
aim. ;-)
I am not an expert on make/automake/autoconf though so I probably am
going to need a hand in this respect.

I'll do some experiments in these days and post here the results...

Regards,

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