<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [ <!ENTITY using SYSTEM "using.docbook"> <!ENTITY kbabeldictchapter SYSTEM "kbabeldict.docbook"> <!ENTITY catman SYSTEM "catman.docbook"> <!ENTITY dictionaries SYSTEM "dictionaries.docbook"> <!ENTITY menu SYSTEM "menu.docbook"> <!ENTITY preferences SYSTEM "preferences.docbook"> <!ENTITY kbabelfaq SYSTEM "faq.docbook"> <!ENTITY glossary SYSTEM "glossary.docbook"> <!ENTITY kappname "&kbabel;"> <!ENTITY package "tdesdk"> <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % British-English "INCLUDE"> <!-- change language only here --> ]> <book lang="&language;"> <bookinfo> <title>The &kbabel; Handbook</title> <authorgroup> <author>&Stanislav.Visnovsky; &Stanislav.Visnovsky.mail; </author> <author>&Matthias.Kiefer; </author> <othercredit role="translator"><firstname>Malcolm</firstname><surname>Hunter</surname><affiliation><address><email>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email></address></affiliation><contrib>Conversion to British English</contrib></othercredit> </authorgroup> <date>2003-09-18</date> <releaseinfo>3.1.91</releaseinfo> <abstract> <para>&kbabel; is a suite of of an advanced and easy to use <acronym>PO</acronym> file editor comprising &kbabel;, a multi functional &cataloguemanager; and a dictionary for translators &kbabeldict;. It supports many advanced features and it lets you customise many options. </para> </abstract> <keywordset> <keyword>KDE</keyword> <keyword>KBabel</keyword> <keyword>catalogmanager</keyword> <keyword>tdesdk</keyword> <keyword>gettext</keyword> <keyword>translation</keyword> <keyword>i18n</keyword> <keyword>l10n</keyword> </keywordset> </bookinfo> <chapter id="introduction"> <title>Introduction</title> <para>&kbabel; is an advanced and easy to use <acronym>PO</acronym> file (&GNU; gettext message catalogues) editor. It has many features, that make it easy to edit and manage your <acronym>PO</acronym> files. This includes full navigation capabilities, extensive editing functionality, search functions, syntax checking and statistics function. &cataloguemanager; is a file manager view, which helps you keep an overview over your <acronym>PO</acronym> files. &kbabeldict; allows you to translate any text using &kbabel; capabilities for automated translation. The &kbabel; suite will help you to translate quickly and also to keep translations consistent. </para> <para>With the &kde; project growing continuously, the number of <acronym>PO</acronym> messages is over 47000 at the time of writing this documentation (plus another 20000 messages used for translating application documentation). There is a need to stay organised and consistent across all translations. </para> </chapter> &using; &catman; &kbabeldictchapter; &dictionaries; &preferences; &menu; &kbabelfaq; <chapter id="credits"> <title>Credits and Licence</title> <para>&kbabel; </para> <para>Program Copyright © 1999-2000 &Matthias.Kiefer; &Matthias.Kiefer.mail; </para> <para>Contributors: <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>&Thomas.Diehl; &Thomas.Diehl.mail;</para> </listitem> <listitem><para>&Stephan.Kulow; &Stephan.Kulow.mail;</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> <para>Documentation Copyright © 2000 &Claudiu.Costin; &Claudiu.Costin.mail; and &Matthias.Kiefer; &Matthias.Kiefer.mail;</para> <para>Update for &kde; 3.0 Copyright © 2002 &Stanislav.Visnovsky; &Stanislav.Visnovsky.mail;</para> <para>Malcolm Hunter<email>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email></para> &underFDL; &underGPL; </chapter> &glossary; <appendix id="installation"> <title>Installation</title> <sect1 id="getting-kbabel"> <title>How to obtain &kbabel;</title> &install.intro.documentation; </sect1> <sect1 id="requirements"> <title>Requirements</title> <para>In order to successfully use &kbabel;, you need &kde; 3.x. </para> <para>All required libraries as well as &kbabel; itself can be found on &kde-ftp;. </para> <para>If you want to use the translation database, you need Berkeley Database II. </para> </sect1> <sect1 id="compilation"> <title>Compilation and Installation</title> &install.compile.documentation; </sect1> </appendix> &documentation.index; </book> <!-- Local Variables: mode: sgml sgml-minimize-attributes: nil sgml-general-insert-case: lower End: -->