From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 19:02:05 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: New post announcing po4a linuxcnc.
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New post announcing po4a linuxcnc.
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+Title: LinuxCNC translators life just got a bit easier
+Tags: english, debian, 3d-printer, robot
+Date: 2022-06-03 21:10
+
+<p>Back in oktober last year, when I started looking at the
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxCNC">LinuxCNC</a> system, I
+proposed to change the documentation build system make life easier for
+translators.  The original system consisted of independently written
+documentation files for each language, with no automated way to track
+changes done in other translations and no help for the translators to
+know how much was left to translated.  By using
+<a href="https://po4a.org/">the po4a system</a> to generate POT and PO
+files from the English documentation, this can be improved.  A small
+team of LinuxCNC contributors got together and today our labour
+finally payed off.  Since a few hours ago, it is now possible to
+translate <a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/linuxcnc/">the
+LinuxCNC documentation on Weblate</a>, alongside the program itself.</p>
+
+<p>The effort to migrate the documentation to use po4a has been both
+slow and frustrating.  I am very happy we finally made it.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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