PO4A-NORMALIZE(1p)						    Po4a Tools							PO4A-NORMALIZE(1p)

NAME

       po4a-normalize - normalize a documentation file by parsing it in po4a, and writing it back

SYNOPSIS

       po4a-normalize -f fmt master.doc

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.

       The po4a-normalize script is a debugging tool used to make sure that po4a don't change the document when it's not supposed to. Only use it
       if you're developing a new module, or if you doubt the sanity of the tools.

       The generated document will be written to po4a-normalize.output while the generated PO file will be written to po4a-normalize.po. No way to
       change that ;)

OPTIONS

       -o, --option
	   Extra option(s) to pass to the format plugin. Specify each option in the 'name=value' format. See the documentation of each plugin for
	   more information about the valid options and their meanings.

       -b, --blank
	   Create an blank translated document.  The generated translated document will be generated assuming all messages are translated by a
	   space or new line.

	   This is useful to check what parts of the document cannot be translated.

       -h, --help
	   Show a short help message.

       --help-format
	   List the documentation formats understood by po4a.

       -f, --format
	   Format of the documentation you want to handle. Use the --help-format option to see the list of available formats.

       -M, --master-charset
	   Charset of the file containing the document to translate.

       -V, --version
	   Display the version of the script and exit.

SEE ALSO

       po4a-gettextize(1), po4a-translate(1), po4a-updatepo(1), po4a(7)

AUTHORS

	Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
	Nicolas Francois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
	Martin Quinson (mquinson#debian.org)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2002-2012 by SPI, inc.

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

Po4a Tools							    2014-06-10							PO4A-NORMALIZE(1p)