Translating manpages

[Yuri Chornoivan]

написане Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:32:18 +0300, Stephen Gallagher  
<sgallagh at redhat.com>:

> I want to derail this thread slightly. How would one go about
> configuring a project to enable translations of manpages by Transifex?
>
> My project (SSSD) already uses Transifex for translating user messages,
> but I'd like for us to be able to make the manpages available for
> translation as well.
>
> We write our manpages in Docbook XML, so it can be easily converted into
> Troff, HTML, etc.
>
> My question is: how can we extract strings from this XML so that we can
> add them to the .pot file for Transifex?
>

Hi!

You can use xml2po (gnome-doc-utils) or xml2pot (kdesdk-po2xml). DocBook  
has nothing with man groff format.

To automate export process you can use some script  
(DocBook->xml2pot->pot->Transifex->po->po2xml->Translated docbooks).

Best regards,
Yuri