NAME¶
gtranslator -- a comfortable gettext po file editor with many bells and
whistles.
SYNOPSIS¶
gtranslator [ --help ] [ --version ] [ -a filename ] [ -e po-file ] [ -g
geometry-string ] [ -l po-file-to-learn ] [ -b ] [ -s ]
DESCRIPTION¶
gtranslator is a comfortable gettext po file editor with many features like
special char featured editing, plural forms view, div. charset support,
comfortable prefs, list view of messages, regular expression based search
function, compile/update possiblities and much much more.
- Of course all standard features of a good application like DnD, session
support, supplement files for mime types and menu items are present.
-
- Instant comment view, a comfortable quick navigation messages table with
customizable colors, colorschemes, UTF-8 support, a high level of
preferizabilation and a personal learn buffer/translation memory with
autotranslation capabilities are the main features of gtranslator besides
the comfortable editing of the translation entries.
OPTIONS¶
- -a --auto-translate=po-file
- Autotranslates the given po file with the entries from the learn buffer
and exits afterwards.
- -e --export-learn-buffer=po-file-to-export
- Exports the learn buffer contents into the given plain gettext po file and
exits.
- -g --geometry=geometry
- Let's you specify the geometry of gtranslator's main window.
- -l --learn=po-file-to-learn
- Learns the given po file within the command line without starting the GUI.
The personal learn buffer is used as a translation memory to
autoaccomplish missing translations/entries.
- -s --learn-statistics
- Print out some statistics and information about the learn buffer of
gtranslator on the commandline.
- --display
- With this option you can select on which screen gtranslator should
appear.
- --help
- Shows you a little help autogenerated by GNOME and with the options
mentioned above.
- --version
- Prints out the version number of gtranslator.
- --usage
- Shows you the pill of options without an explanation.
FILES¶
- ~/.gconf/apps/gtranslator
- Your personal gtranslator settings will be stored there.
- ~/.gtranslator
- This directory is used by gtranslator for all it's "private"
files (e.g. temporary files).
- ~/.gtranslator/colorschemes/
- Your personal colorschemes can be placed in this directory -- gtranslator
does also list the colorschemes in this directory in the colorscheme
selection box.
- ~/.gtranslator/etstates/
- The state file for the messages table/tree is stored in this
directory.
- ~/.gtranslator/umtf/
- Your personal learn buffers (in UMTF format) are stored in this directory
-- the learn buffer is used for auto translation issues.
- ~/.gtranslator/files/
- Temporary files used by gtranslator are stored in this directory (mostly
this directory should be empty).
LEARN BUFFER¶
The learn buffer is the implementation of a personal translation memory (TM) in
gtranslator. gtranslator uses the
UMTF (a compressed XML file which is
normally quite good human readable if uncompressed) format for storing it's
learned strings.
Your learned strings are then available for the autotranslation feature of
gtranslator where gtranslator automatically fills in the corresponding and
valuable translations for any message which has already been learned
previously. This results in a fairly high percentage of
prefilled/pretranslated messages.
The common and good style of working with the learn buffer and with the
autotranslation should be to learn the main po/translation files for your
language via gtranslator via calling
gtranslator -n -l po-file-to-learn
on the command line; this will put the translated strings from this po file
into your personal learn buffer.
You should learn the main po files (for GNOME for example
gnumeric,
nautilus,
evolution or any other bigger, already translated
package's po file) for your language); you can use a new script from the
gtranslator package to automatise this task a little bit: it's
“build-gtranslator-learn-buffer.sh” which is installed into
gtranslator's scripts directory which you can see by calling
gtranslator
-b and you simply execute the script with it's full path and simply follow
the information on the command line for it.
Afterwards you can simply use the "Autotranslation" menu entry from
the GUI or use the "F10" hotkey to let gtranslator autotranslate all
missing translations from your personal learn buffer. This will ease your
translation work and make a big portion of the po files be pre-translated.
With a fairly big personal learn buffer of about 2 MB you can achive many
pre-translated messages for a new project/translation.
If you want to use the stored learn buffer contents to produce a po file with
all the “learned” translations, you can also use the
“export learn buffer” capability of gtranslator to get a plain
po file version of the learn buffer.
USAGE EXAMPLES¶
Some examples for the options.
- gtranslator -b
- Shows you the real build specs/dates of gtranslator.
- gtranslator -s
- Give me statistics about the learn buffer of gtranslator.
- gtranslator -n -l po-file-to-learn
- Learns the given po file “po-file-to-learn” on the command
line without starting up the GUI.
- gtranslator -a po-file
- Autotranslates all missing entries from the learn buffer if possible and
exits.
- gtranslator -e po-file-to-export
- Exports your current learn buffer to the given plain gettext po file
(“po-file-to-export”).
- gtranslator po-file
- Starts gtranslator with the given po-file loaded on startup.
- gtranslator -g “460x320+0+0”
- Lets gtranslator appear on the left upper edge of the screen
“+0+0” and gtranslator is sized to “460x320”
if possible -- if gtranslator needs more size for it's window contents,
it'll expand itself to the necessary dimensions -- even if you defined a
smaller geometry string.
LICENSE¶
gtranslator is distributed under the
GNU GPL V 2.0 or greater.
AUTHORS¶
Ross Golder <ross@kabalak.net>, Fatih Demir <kabalak@kabalak.net>
(previously also: Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis@kabalak.net>, Thomas
Ziehmer <thomas@kabalak.net>, Kevin Vandersloot <kfv101@psu.edu>
and Peeter Vois <peeter@kabalak.net>).
WEBSITE¶
http://www.gtranslator.org
BUGREPORTS¶
You can deliver bug reports to the gtranslator development team to our bug base
via
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gtranslator
VERSION¶
gtranslator 2.91.6 man-page