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diff --git a/misc/po4a/README b/misc/po4a/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e560c89996 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/po4a/README @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +po4a - Versatile PO to/from other documentation formats converter + +po4a (PO for anything) eases translations and their maintenance, +allowing gettext's usage on unexpected areas like documentation. + +In po4a each documentation format is handled by a module, that +converts this format to/from PO. Formats included in po4a-0.45 are: +BibTex, Dia, Halibut, KernelHelp, LaTeX, Man, POD, SGML, TeX, +Texinfo, Text, WML, XHTML, XML. + +man pages are encoded in UTF-8. To read them in other languages than English, +do this for instance: +LANG=ru_RU.utf8 GROFF_ENCODING=utf8 man <man page> + +WARNING: run po4a.SlackBuild as root (su -) not with only root privileges +(su), otherwise test #24 will fail. + +Dependencies tree is as follows (all dependencies listed are available at +http://slackbuilds.org). + +Po4a-0.45 +| +|-- locale-gettext (included in Slackware 14.1), allows translation of +| po4a's own messages. Optional +|-- perl-term-ReadKey to retrieve the terminal's line width. Only used if +| perl-text-WrapI18N is available. Optional +|-- perl-text-WrapI18N to format po4a's warnings and error messages. Optional. +| |-- Text::CharWidth. Mandatory +|-- perl-Unicode-LineBreak, includes module Unicode::GCString to compute + text width, neeeded by AsciiDoc to determine two line titles in + encodings different from ASCII. Mandatory for TEXT module. + |-- perl-MIME-Charset. Mandatory + |-- perl-Encode-EUCJPASCII. Optional + |-- perl-Encode-HanExtra. Optional. + |-- perl-Encode-JISX0213. Optional + |-- perl-Encode-ISO2022. Mandatory |