INTLTOOL-PREPARE(8)                                                                                          INTLTOOL-PREPARE(8)



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:

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

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

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

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

       o 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 <darinATbentspoon.com>
       Kenneth Christiansen <kennethATgnu.org>
       Maciej Stachowiak <mjsATeazel.com>


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



intltool                                                   2003-08-02                                        INTLTOOL-PREPARE(8)