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:

       keyvalue
           Treat  paragraphs that look like a key value pair as verbatim (with the no-wrap flag in the PO file).
           Key value pairs are defined as a line containing one  or  more  non-colon  and  non-space  characters
           followed by a colon followed by at least one non-space character before the end of the line.

       nobullets
           Deactivate the 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). Instead, the corresponding paragraph is rewrapped 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.

       yfm_keys (markdown-only)
           Comma-separated list of keys to process for translation in the YAML Front Matter section.  All  other
           keys are skipped. Keys are matched with a case-insensitive match. Array values are always translated,
           unless the yfm_skip_array option is provided.

       yfm_skip_array (markdown-only)
           Do not translate array values in the YAML Front Matter section.

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

       neverwrap
           Prevent  po4a from wrapping any lines. This means that every content is handled verbatim, even simple
           paragraphs.

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 Nicolas FRANÇOIS <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>.

        Copyright © 2008-2009, 2018 Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>.
        Copyright © 2020 Martin Quinson <mquinson#debian.org>.

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

Po4a Tools                                         2022-01-02                            Locale::Po4a::Text(3pm)