Re: [Gimp-docs] whats new in GIMP 2.8

[Marco Ciampa <ciampix libero it>]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:04:34PM +0200, Ulf-D. Ehlert wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:52:16PM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> [...]
> > Doing exactly this I just noted that the already translated strings in
> > one .po file do not magically ;-) move from one file to another...
> > (from introduction to appendix...)
> > 
> > I need a way to avoid to create uneeded work to other translators...how
> > can I move all those strings for _all_ the languages .po files?
> 
> There's no simple (make) command to do this, but you can try this
> (not tested!):
> 
> 1. backup appendix.po and introduction.po ;-)
> 
> 2a. try 'msgmerge' with the '--compendium=FILE' option:
> 
> 	$ msgmerge --quiet --width=79 \
> 	      --compendium=po/xx/introduction.po \
> 	      --output-file=po/xx/appendix.po \
> 	      po/xx/appendix.po pot/appendix.pot
> 
>     and compare new and old appendix.po.

I've tried this and it is enough for me.

> 2b. try it with 'make' using the 'COMPENDIUM' variable:
> 
> 	# save introduction.po:
> 	$ cp po/xx/introduction.po po/xx/tmp-compendium.po
> 	$ make po/xx/appendix.po COMPENDIUM=tmp-compendium.po
> 
>     and, once more, compare new and old appendix.po.
> 
> (Remember to always use the original (saved) appendix.po, if you try
> both methods.)

Why should it be different? It launch a different command?

> If this works, you can do it with a simple for-loop for all languages.

It worked very well, thank you Ulf, as usual. 

Done this:

#!/bin/bash

LOCREPO=/home/marco/git-gnome/gimp-help-2
LLIST="da de el es fi fr hr it ja ko lt nl nn pl ru sl sv zh_CN"
POSRCS=introduction
PODEST=appendix
#MDEBUG="y"


cd $LOCREPO
pwd
for PONAT in `echo $LLIST`
do
  if [ "$MDEBUG" == "y" ]; then
    echo  msgmerge --width=79 \
                   --compendium=po/${PONAT}/${POSRCS}.po \
                   --output-file=po/${PONAT}/${PODEST}.po \
                   po/${PONAT}/${PODEST}.po pot/${PODEST}.pot
  else
    msgmerge --width=79 \
             --compendium=po/${PONAT}/${POSRCS}.po \
             --output-file=po/${PONAT}/${PODEST}.po \
             po/${PONAT}/${PODEST}.po pot/${PODEST}.pot
  fi
done

I've already pushed it (hope it was all right).
The new whats-new page is a work in progress and it is not complete.
Feel free to add, correct, comment, and forgive my many errors, please.

PS: May I ask you a favour Ulf? Can you tell me why the command syntax is that?
Why you have to specify appendix.po(t) three times? 

Looking at the command manual page I would never say that I would have
to put it like this.

>From the man page...

man msgmrg

MSGMERGE(1)                           GNU                          MSGMERGE(1)

NAME
       msgmerge - merge message catalog and template

SYNOPSIS
       msgmerge [OPTION] def.po ref.pot
....

it seems just a 2 argument command...

TIA

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Marco Ciampa

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