NAME

       intltool-prepare - Prepare software to make use of intltool

SYNOPSIS

       intltool-prepare [option] [KEYWORD]...

DESCRIPTION

       For  software  packages  that  include  some  specific type of translatable files (such as
       .desktop and .soundlist), before they make  use  of  intltool,  translators  have  to  dig
       through  them one by one, and add their localization into each file. This process is error
       prone, since translators may include typing errors, or add  their  localization  in  wrong
       encoding.  Besides,  translators  may  not  alwas  know other files (beside .po files) are
       translatable.

       intltool avoids all the problems above by extracting  strings  inside  those  translatable
       files into po template (.pot) file. All translators need to care about is just translating
       po files. Afterwards, intltool-merge(8) will merge localized strings into those files.

       Before your software becomes intltool-aware, a few issues  have  to  be  sorted  out,  and
       intltool-prepare tries to take care of all of them.  intltool-prepare will:

       • Extract   all   localized   strings  in  .desktop  style  files  (including  ".desktop",
         ".soundlist", ".keys" and ".directory") into corresponding po files.

       • Convert the translatable files into templates that don't contain any localization.

       • Add the list of template files above into POTFILES.in.

       • Add the list of old translatable files into .cvsignore (since they will be generated  by
         intltool later).

       • Add the rules for generating these files into Makefile.am.

       NOTE:  You  must change working directory to the top level source directory before running
       intltool-prepare.

OPTIONS

       KEYWORD is a list of additional  keywords  beside  "Name",  "Comment"  and  "description".
       intltool-prepare will recognize any line starting with those KEYWORD and extract localized
       strings after equal sign ("=").

       -x
       --verbose
           Be verbose to give user additional feedback.

       -v
       --version
           Show version information.
       -h
       --help
           Show usage and basic help information.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to http://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool

AUTHOR

       Darin Adler <darin@bentspoon.com>
       Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth@gnu.org>
       Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>

SEE ALSO

       intltoolize(8), intltool-update(8), intltool-extract(8), intltool-merge(8)