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HOWTO convert a pre-existing translation to po4a?

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HOWTO convert a pre-existing translation to po4a?

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Often, you used to translate manually the document happily until a major reorganization of the original document happened. Then, after some unpleasant tries with diff or similar tools, you want to convert to po4a. But of course, you don’t want to loose your existing translation in the process. Don’t worry, this case is also handled by po4a tools and is called gettextization. The key here is to have the same structure in the translated document and in the original one so that the tools can match the content accordingly. If you are lucky (i.e., if the structures of both documents perfectly match), it will work seamlessly and you will be set in a few seconds. Otherwise, you may understand why this process has such an ugly name, and you’d better be prepared to some grunt work here. In any case, remember that it is the price to pay to get the comfort of po4a afterward. And the good point is that you have to do so only once. I cannot emphasis this too much. In order to ease the process, it i

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