NAME

       pospell - Run a program on the translation strings of a .po-file

SYNOPSIS

       pospell [-l language ] [-fsv] -n pofile -p program [-- [ arguments...  ]]

DESCRIPTION

       pospell copies the translations from the pofile to a temporary file (called the spellfile) and then calls
       program  with  its  arguments.   program  is supposed to somehow change the spellfile.  It is typically a
       spell checker. Afterwards the possibly changed translations in spellfile 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 program.

       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
       followed  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.

FILES

       pospell uses one or two temporary files with names given by the mkstemp(3) or the tmpnam(3) function.

BUGS

       If some system call gives an unexpected error pospell will stop immediately 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)