NEWS

This file presents the major changes of each version, focusing on
user-visible changes while the day to day changes are in the git logs.

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Core:
 * po4a-translate complains if the input po file is outdated
   Thanks to Martin Schauer for the bug report (Debian's #637288).
 * teach po4a-updatepo about the --porefs options that was already documented.
   Thanks to Guillem Jover for the bug report.
 * rename --porefs values after msgmerge option's name: noline->file
   and none->never. Both variantes are accepted; the later is documented.
   Thanks to Guillem Jover for the initial patch (Debian's #775708).

po4a:
 * New option --no-update to not touch the po files. (Debian's #599179)

AsciiDoc:
 * Properly deal with item text missing its leading indent (GitHub's #14)

Text:
 * Add an option to treat Key/Value pairs as verbatim (GitHub's #8, #25)

RubyDoc:
 * New module by Francesco Poli (Debian's #827936)

Documentation:
 * Various fixups by Alexander Golubev.

Translations:
 * Update German, thanks to Helge Kreutzmann (Debian's #859029)
 * Update French, thanks to Alban Vidal (Debian's #860073)
 * Update Russian, thanks to Alexander Golubev (GitHub's #24)
 * Update Italian, Marco Ciampa.
 * Update Dutch, thanks to Frans Spiesschaert (Debian's #862923)

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XML:
 * Add an option to escape all quotes, for android.
   Thanks to Josh Dubois for the patch (Alioth's #315353).

po4a:
 * Checking po file is fine. Failing if the file does not exist isn't.
   It makes apt to FTBFS! (Debian's #858934)

other:
 * Third attempt at installing the manpages to the right location.

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AsciiDoc:
 * Further bug fixing to handle the git documentation (GitHub's #9).
   - Before, we did not mark enough list blocks as verbatim.
   - Now, we may mark a few too much of them.
   - This should not do any harm, beyond some fuzzy translation.
 * Fix some bugs, around style macros (Alioth's #314919)
   Thanks to Alexander Golubev for the patch.

XML:
 * Add an option to not wrap attributes (GitHub's #6)
   Contributed by Ineiev, committed by dbarbier, thanks.

Text:
 * debianchangelog: Accept timezone names on multiple chars (Debian's #792416)
 * Add a neverwrap option to prevent any wrapping
   (Debian's #824753 and Alioth's #314748)

po4a:
 * Check the validity of po files before using them (Debian's #855431)

other:
 * Fix ./Build install target, that I messed up recently.
 * Fix path to man pages when '--install_path man' is specified.
   Thanks to John Hein for the patch (Alioth's #315040).

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AsciiDoc:
 * Fix various bugs, thanks to Brian Exelbierd (GitHub's #1, #2).
 * Correctly handle list literal paragraph (GitHub's #9).

Man:
 * Add support for the tab(<character>) global option inside .TS/.TE.
   Also tidy up trailing newline handling in text blocks: Since that
   trailing newling must be there, no need to translate it explicitly.
   Many thanks to Colin Watson for the report, patch and tests.
   (Debian's #847754).
 * WARNING: this will fuzz your existing translations, but unfuzzing
   will be rather easy so I push this change anyway.

Translations:
 * Update Italian, thanks to Marco Ciampa.
 * Update Indonesian, thanks to Izharul Haq (Debian's #835050).
 * Update Japanese, thanks to Takuma Yamada (Debian's #818949).
 * Update French, thanks Alban Vidal (Debian's #856188).

Other:
 * Ensure that files in the archive are writable (Debian's #728602)

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SGML:
 * Use OpenSP as an underlying engine instead of the deprecated SP
   Thanks to Neil Roeth (Debian's 809477, 280882)

Translations:
 * Update Japaneese, thanks to Takuma Yamada.
 * Fix formating issue in pt translation (noticed by Lintian).

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Man:
 * Fix: don't add supirious lines around \# lines (Debian's 786642)
   Thanks to David Prévot (bug report) and to Robert Luberda (patch)

Documentation:
 * Bugfix: poref is a command line option (Debian's #775707)
   Thanks to Guillem Jover for the report and the patch.

Translations:
 * Update Italian, thanks to Marco Ciampa.

Other:
 * Port our regex to Perl 5.22 (Debian's #788706)
   Thanks to Roderich Schupp for the report and patch.

Project resources:
 * We migrated from SVN to GIT.  All history has been converted.
   The project is still hosted on alioth, although an unofficial
   project was created on github (mquinson/po4a) to get the pull
   requests of the ones preferring the comfort of non free solutions.

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  \_/  \___(_) |_|  \___/      (released 2015-05-21)

Man:
 * Fix handling of preprocessor lines (Debian's #744366)
   Thanks to Robert Luberda for the patch.
 * Fix handling of tbl's textblocks (Debian's #748601)
   Thanks to Robert Luberda for the patch.

Sgml:
 * Silence a warning about useless greediness modifier (Debian's #779435)

Translations:
 * Update Dutch, thanks to Frans Spiesschaert (Debian's #782393)
 * Update Vietnamese, thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân (Debian's #776896)
 * Update Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Rafael Ferreira (Debian's #735644)

Documentation:
 * Update Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Rafael Ferreira (Debian's #735644)

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po4a:
 * Fix usage of File::Temp::tempfile to allow using Perl >= 5.18.

Asciidoc:
 * Make it a standalone format.

Docbook:
 * Make <beginpage> inline.

Ini:
 * Add key parameter as an automatic comment.  This allows using
   po4a-gettextize on ini files.

LaTeX:
 * Fix handling of optional parameters in newtheorem command.

Po:
 * Fix computation of timezone written into PO files.

Sgml:
 * Fix failing tests with recent Docbook DTD.

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translations:
 * Start of Portuguese translation

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po4a:
 * Add --porefs option to change how file locations are written into
   the POT file (and thus into the PO files also).

po4a-updatepo po4a Po:
 * Extend the --porefs option, add a new 'counter' value to replace
   line number by an increasing counter.
   An optional ",nowrap" or ",wrap" specifier can be added to tell
   whether file locations are written on a single line or wrapped on
   several lines.  Default is ",nowrap", it will be changed to ",wrap"
   in a future release.

Man:
 * Make .UR/.UE macros inline.
 * Add macros used in several NetBSD man pages: %I %U Brc Bro Lp Lk

Text:
 * Fix two line titles in AsciiDoc format.
 * Let AsciiDoc format handle many more styles.
 * Add support for automatic comments in AsciiDoc format.

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po4a:
 * Allow adding command-line options after config file.

Text:
 * Add support for control files.

msguntypot:
 * Do not remove obsolete entries from PO files.

documentation translations:
 * New German translations
 * Updated Spanish translations
 * Updated French translations
 * Updated Japanese translations
 * Updated Polish translations

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po4a-updatepo:
 * --previous flag was not passed to msgmerge

po4a:
 * Do no more generate backups for PO files.
 * Fix the --srcdir option, master file was not found.
 * Expand variables when reading @-prefixed addenda files.

Text:
 * Remove trailing newline in titles from PO files

Packaging:
 * Remove Makefile, all processing is performed by Build.PL

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documentation:
 * Improve English style (following recommendations from man(7))

translations:
 * Start of Danish translation
 * Removal of Arabic translation, only one string was translated
 * Updated Vietnamese translation
 * Updated Slovenian translation
 * Updated Basque translation
 * Updated French translation
 * Updated Japanese translation
 * Updated Czech translation
 * Updated German translation
 * Updated Ukrainian translation
 * Updated Esperanto translation
 * Updated Estonian translation
 * Updated Russian translation

documentation translations:
 * Updated Spanish translations
 * Updated French translations
 * Updated Japanese translations
 * Updated Polish translations

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Po:
 * Change header entry to be consistent with xgettext when creating
   POT files: replace Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING" by
   "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" and add a Language field.

documentation:
 * Improve English style (proper casing, replace cvs by VCS, etc).

translations:
 * Updated French translations
 * Updated Spanish translations
 * Updated Japanese translations
 * Updated Esperanto translations
 * Updated Swedish translations
 * Updated Russian translations
 * Updated Estonian translations
 * Updated Ukrainian translations
 * Updated Czech translations
 * Updated Portuguese translations
 * Updated German translations

Project resources:
 * We migrated from CVS to SVN.  All CVS history has been converted.
   See http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/po4a/
   The standard SVN layout is used (with top-level /trunk, /branches
   and /tags directories), and the files to generate the website
   (html/, po/html.cfg and po/www) are moved into a new /web
   top-level directory.

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po4a-gettextize:
 * When it fails, recode msgstr into current charset before
   printing it.

Text:
 * Fix failures "Unknown option: copyright-holder"

Man:
 * Support font modifiers in the form \f(XX and \f[FONT-NAME]

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po4a
 * New syntax for addenda, path may be preceded by modifiers.

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po4a
 * Exit with an error if master file specified in a po4a configuration
   file does not exist.

po4a, po4a-updatepo:
 * --previous is activated by default.
 * Use --no-previous to support versions of gettext earlier than 0.16.

Xml:
 * Fix handling of multi-lines placeholder tags.
 * New option addlang.

Pod:
 * Detect the encoding based on the input's =encoding line.

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  \_/  \___(_)____//_/(_)_| (released 2009-11-22)

po4a-build:
 * Fix UTF8 handling and names of perl modules for section 3.
 * Fix bug that caused translated manpages to be overwritten.

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po4a-build:
 * New script for one-stop generation of untranslated and translated
 documentation from DocBook XML and POD sources.

translations:
 * Updated Spanish translations.

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Text:
 * Added options breaks and tabs.

po4aman-display-po
  * Fixed bashism.

translations:
 * Added Vietnamese translation
 * Updated Czech translation
 * Updated Spanish translation of the documentation

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Sgml:
  * Fix detection of entities in the prolog.

translations:
 * Updated German translation
 * Updated Portuguese translation

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po4a
 * Added options --srcdir and --destdir. They permit to strip the base
   directory for the input and output documents (in the config file and in
   the references generated in the PO files).

po4a-updatepo
 * Added options --msgid-bugs-address, --copyright-holder, --package-name,
   --package-version to control the generation of the PO header.

translations:
 * Updated Basque translation
 * Updated Czech translation
 * Updated Esperanto translation
 * Improved Estonian translation.
 * Updated French translation
 * Updated Russian translation
 * Updated Spanish translation.
 * Updated Swedish translation.

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\ \ / / | | |  |_ \| '_ \   |_ \   Bug fix release.
 \ V /| |_| | ___) | (_) | ___) |
  \_/  \___(_)____/ \___(_)____/ (released 2009-07-22)

po4a-gettextize's new options were rejected by the modules.

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po4apod-display-po
 * New script to display previews of POD translations.
po4a-gettextize
 * Added options --msgid-bugs-address, --copyright-holder, --package-name,
   --package-version to control the generation of the PO header.

Text:
 * Avoid the translation of some markups: title and horizontal rules.
 * Improved Markdown support.
Xml:
 * New option customtag for inline tags that should not be treated as a
   tag (e.g. they do not need to be closed).
Wml:
 * Fix handling of non ASCII input documents.

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TeX:
 * Fix support for inline customization of separators.
 * Fix support for double escapes, which should not introduce commands.
LaTeX:
 * Added support for the tabularx environment.
Xml:
 * Do not include commented out external entities (when includeexternal is
   used).
Pod:
 * Do not add an =encoding header if the encoding is empty.

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general:
 * The "type:" comments in the PO files are now tagged as extracted
   comments (starting with #.). This changes all the PO files generated by
   po4a. Maintainers should just let these changes pass through.
   Translator may want to remove the comment lines starting with '# type:'
   as they will be duplicates with the '#. type:' comments.

Xml:
 * Placeholders are presented with a type and have a more valid XML
   representation. This changes the PO files, but translations could be
   updated automatically.
 * Do not fail when the doctype does not match the expected one. Only
   issue a warning.
 * The tags and tagsonly options are deprecated. Use the
   translated/untranslated and break/inline/placeholder options instead.
 * Added foldattributes option. Useful to simplify strings and avoid typos
   when attributes shall not be translated.
Man:
 * Better handling of spaces in command arguments.
TeX:
 * Included files are searched with kpsewhich instead of using TEXINPUTS
   directly.

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po4a
 * Added support for the [po_directory] command in the configuration file.
   It permits to avoid listing the supported languages.  Simply dropping a
   new PO file should be sufficient.  It should be preferred over the
   po4a_langs and po4a_paths commands.
po4a-normalize:
 * Added option -b, --blank to check which parts of a document are not
   translated.
po4a-gettextize:
 * Improved conflict handling: indicate the reference of the alternatives
   when the same string has different translations.

general:
 * Added support for a nowrapi18n option in Locale::Po4a::Common in
   order to use Locale::Po4a programatically.

packaging:
 * Manpages are generated in utf-8. This requires a recent Pod::Man with
   support for the utf8 option.

Docbook:
 * Improved support for Docbook 5 and Docbook 4, based on the official
   documentation of the Docbook tags.
Pod:
 * Announce the encoding in the POD header.
Sgml:
 * Add support for recursive inclusion.
Text:
 * Added option asciidoc
Xhtml:
 * Improvements for the <u> tag.
xml:
 * Fix the nodefault option. Derivative modules should use _default_tags
   and _default_inline to define the default behavior of their
   module-specific tags (instead of tags and inline).
 * Speed improvements.
 * Added support for placeholders.

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** New features
general:
 * Do not end re-wrapped lines with a space.
halibut:
 * Added support for the Halibut format.
sgml:
 * Fix failures with big sgml documents ("broken pipe" received from
   nsgmls -p).
text:
 * Added support for the Markdown format, as used with Ikiwiki.
 * Make sure files are not mixed together when gettextized at the same
   time.
packaging:
 * Fix build failures with old versions of Module::Build.

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po4a:
 * Add options --package-name and --package-version (similar to xgettext's
   options).

translations:
 * Actually ship Japanese translations.

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text:
 * Added support for the fortunes format.

translations:
 * New Japanese translation.
 * The manpages are generated in UTF-8.

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\ \ / / | | |  |_ \ |_ \ | | This is a bug fix release.
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  \_/  \___(_)____/____(_)_| (released 2008-03-16)


man:
 * Do not translate - to \- inside \*[...], \(.., \H'...', or \Z'...'.

xml:
 * Do not translate SSI comments by default.

packaging:
 * Fix the installation path of manpages and .mo files.

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Notes to packagers: Since 0.31, some tests in the sgml testsuite require
the docbook sgml DTD. If you run the testsuite at build time you must have
these DTD in your build dependencies or you must disable these tests
cases in the testsuite.

** New features
  general: Support for PO files with plural forms.
           Po4a does not generate such PO files, but it can receive one in
           input. In such case, po4a cannot choose between the (singular
           and) plural forms. It will consider that msgstr[0] is the
           translation of msgid and msgstr[1] is the translation of
           msgid_plural, which may be wrong. Thus, a warning will be
           issued if po4a is asked to translate the singular or plural
           form of a message with plural forms.

  texinfo: Major changes. Tested on the elisp documentation.

  sgml: Fail if nsgmls cannot validate the input file. This can be turned
        off with the "force" option.

  xml: New option "cpp" to support C preprocessor directives (this avoids
       re-wrapping lines with preprocessor directives).
  xml: New options "translated" and "untranslated" that should allow an
       easier configuration of Xml (and derivative module)
  xml: Avoid duplicated newlines at the end of lines of multi-lines
       comments.
  xml: Paragraphs which only consist in an inline tag are now extracted.
       This makes a lot of string to available for translation in the PO
       file.
  docbook: Tested on the Docbook testsuite. Lots of tag added.

  po4a: Fix failures with perl 5.10. Thanks to Roderich Schupp
        <roderich.schupp@googlemail.com>

  msguntypot: Fix handling of the comment of the PO header.

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** Security fix
  Fix a symlink attack caused by the /tmp/gettextization.failed.po
  temporary file.
  (CVE-2007-4462)

** Bug fixes

  sgml: The handling of newlines was broken in no-wrap sections in 0.31

  xhtml: The module is now distributed as the other modules.

  texinfo: Fix infinite loop when a command parameter ends with \
           (as in @samp{\})

** New features

  xml: New option includeexternal to support external entities.

  texinfo: Added support for many commands and environment (see
           changelog).

  xhtml: New option includessi, which adds supports for Server Side
         Includes include element (<!--#include virtual="/foo/bar.html" -->).

  xml: New option ontagerror to control the behavior of the module in case
       of error. This permits to support files that the module would
       consider invalid otherwise.

** Translations

  New translations (Bengali, Estonian, Croatian, Indonesian, Kannada,
  Korean, Occitan, Uzbek, Simplified Chinese, Chinese from Hong Kong) and
  many updates.

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** Dependencies

  po4a,
  po4a-updatepo: New option --previous requires gettext 0.16.

** Bug fixes

  general: Don't hang when running in background with redirected stdout.
           Thanks to Jim Meyering.

** New features

  general: po4a now uses timestamps to avoid re-generating a translation
           if no changes are expected: if a translation is more recent
           than its associated PO, master document, addenda or
           configuration file, then there is no need to update it. For the
           documents which do not pass the translation threshold, a
           --stamp option was added to tell po4a to create files with a
           .po4a-stamp extension (you can also create them manually).
           This can save a lot of time when po4a knows that the
           translation will not be generated because there were no changes
           since the last po4a run.

  general: Beginning of a C extension. This provides speedup. Testers are
           welcomed.

  po4a: New options: --msgid-bugs-address and --copyright-holder.

  po4a: Add new tag: [options] to set global options (i.e. for every
        documents in the configuration file).

  po4a: Update translations based on modification times. Use timestamp to
        avoid retrying generate uncompleted translations.

  man: New 'unknown_macros' option to specify the behavior of po4a with
       unknown groff macros.

  man: Reset the configuration between two runs. This permits to define
       different options for different files in a config file with the
       opt:"..." parameters.

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  \_/  \___(_)____/ \___/  (released 2007-01-05)

** Bug fixes

  man: Recode the text which is skipped, like comments.
       This kind of issue may also appear on other modules.
       A better solution would be to always use UTF-8 internally.

  distribution: Some unit tests were missing.
                Also, the dependencies have been simplified.
                Locale::gettext, Text::WrapI18N, Term::ReadKey and SGMLS
                are still recommended, but no more required.
                The BibTex module is now distributed.

  sgml: The module should be more friendly with XML files.

  po4a: When po4a creates a new PO file, it now uses msginit. This may
        change the header of created PO files.

  guide: Major update of the tag definitions. Thanks to Azamat H.
         Hackimov.

  Po: use strftime instead of date because date is not available on
      every platform.

  tests: rename the XML testsuite to SGML, since it was testing the Sgml
         module, and add a new testsuite for the Xml module (it currently
         tests the Guide module).

** Translations

  Updated Russian translation.

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  \_/  \___(_)_____|  /_/  (released 2006-10-15)

** New features

  New module for .INI files. Thanks to Costin Stroie.

  New module for BibTeX bibliographies.

  man: New mdoc option for stricter support of mdoc pages (NAME section
  not translated).

  text: Support for underlined text.

  text: Support for bulleted paragraphs (can be deactivated with
  -o nobullets).

** Bug fixes

  sgml: Remove the tags from the default categories when they are defined
  by the user.  This changes the behavior of the Sgml module's options.

  sgml: Better line references in the generated PO.

  sgml: Support for '/>' (empty XML tag closure) when an xml prologue is
  found (<?xml ...?>).

  po4a: When po4a create new PO files, it now uses msginit instead of
  copying the POT file.

  man: Keep empty commented lines.

  man: Do not add spaces at the end of lines.

  man: Languages without non breaking space could not use question marks.

  sgml: Better support for verbatim sections, and consider <cmdsynopsis>
  as verbatim. <arg> and <option> are now in the ignore category.

  general: Length calculation algorithm changed for wrapping lines in the
  output document or in the PO. This should improve output when files are
  encoded in UTF-8.

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  \_/  \___(_)_____\___/  (released 2006-08-17)

** Bug fixes

  man: Fix for .I " " and other minor bug fixes.

  tex/latex: Documentation and usability improvements.

** Speed improvement

  po4a: The POs are now only read once. This will speed the processing
  when many documents are specified in a configuration file.

** Translations

  Updated French translation.