NAME

       Locale::Po4a::Text - convert text documents from/to PO files

DESCRIPTION

       The po4a (PO for anything) project goal is to ease translations (and more interestingly,
       the maintenance of translations) using gettext tools on areas where they were not expected
       like documentation.

       Locale::Po4a::Text is a module to help the translation of text documents into other
       [human] languages.

       Paragraphs are split on empty lines (or lines containing only spaces or tabulations).

       If a paragraph contains a line starting by a space (or tabulation), this paragraph won't
       be rewrapped.

OPTIONS ACCEPTED BY THIS MODULE

       These are this module's particular options:

       nobullets
           Deactivate detection of bullets.

           By default, when a bullet is detected, the bullet paragraph is not considered as a
           verbatim paragraph (with the no-wrap flag in the PO file), but the module rewraps this
           paragraph in the generated PO file and in the translation.

       tabs=mode
           Specify how tabulations shall be handled. The mode can be any of:

           split
               Lines with tabulations introduce breaks in the current paragraph.

           verbatim
               Paragraph containing tabulations will not be re-wrapped.

           By default, tabulations are considered as spaces.

       breaks=regex
           A regular expression matching lines which introduce breaks.  The regular expression
           will be anchored so that the whole line must match.

       debianchangelog
           Handle the header and footer of released versions, which only contain non translatable
           informations.

       fortunes
           Handle the fortunes format, which separate fortunes with a line which consists in '%'
           or '%%', and use '%%' as the beginning of a comment.

       markdown
           Handle some special markup in Markdown-formatted texts.

       asciidoc
           Handle documents in the AsciiDoc format.

       control[=taglist]
           Handle control files.  A comma-separated list of tags to be translated can be
           provided.

STATUS OF THIS MODULE

       Tested successfully on simple text files and NEWS.Debian files.

AUTHORS

        Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

        Copyright 2005-2008 by Nicolas FRANÇOIS <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>.

       This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       GPL (see the COPYING file).