[Po4a-devel] ignore lines in Tex

[D. Barbier]

On 2014-04-24 19:49 GMT+02:00 Felix Dietze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using po4a to translate this LaTeX document:
> https://github.com/iuf/rulebook/blob/master/src/iuf-rulebook.tex
>
> It works well, but my translators get confused by the latex-commands
> they see in the strings:
>
> #. type: Plain text
> #: ./src/iuf-rulebook.tex:11
> msgid "\\textwidth=14.7cm \\textheight=22.1cm"
> msgstr ""
>
> #.  \usepackage[nenglish]{babel}
> #. type: Plain text
> #: ./src/iuf-rulebook.tex:22
> msgid "\\setlist{itemsep=-1mm, topsep=-1pt, partopsep=0pt}"
> msgstr ""
>
> #.  turning off part numbering in the backmatter
> #.  parts will still go to the TOC
> #. type: Plain text
> #: ./src/iuf-rulebook.tex:28
> msgid "\\g at addto@macro\\backmatter{\\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-2}} \\makeatother"
> msgstr ""
>
> #.  prettier TOC
> #. use 'KOMAlike" if you don't want dots
> #. type: Plain text
> #: ./src/iuf-rulebook.tex:42
> msgid ""
> "\\usetocstyle{allwithdot} \\settocstylefeature [-1] {entryvskip} {15pt} "
> "\\settocstylefeature [0] {entryvskip} {10pt} \\settocstylefeature [0] "
> "{entryhook} {\\hspace{18pt} }"
> msgstr ""
>
> #. if a part only has a single chapter in it use \singlechapter{}
> otherwise use the normal \chapter{}
> #. type: Plain text
> #: ./src/iuf-rulebook.tex:48
> msgid ""
> "\\singlechapter[1]{\\begin{mtchideinmaintoc} \\addstarredchapter{#1} "
> "\\chapter*{#1} \\end{mtchideinmaintoc}}"
> msgstr ""
>
>
> Is there a way to exclude lines from the translation?

Hello,

Po4a has a predefined list of macros; you can extend it, see Locale::Po4a::TeX.
For instance, adding
  % po4a: command -settocstylefeature[]{}{}
in the TeX file should remove \settocstylefeature from PO files.
A simpler solution is to move your preamble into a separate file which
is \include'd, and add an exclude_include option to exclude this file.

Denis