Hi Hans-Christoph, I am very interested in this subject too. I think po4a is a fantastic project, and it seems to work relatively well on markdown. I am considering using it to set up translation for OpenRefine's new documentation.
One thing that worries me is that we might soon run into the limitations of the markdown parser (since it is in fact a generic parser for text files with some markdown support). If we run into that, we could potentially contribute patches, but: - po4a is written in perl, so I will struggle to contribute myself; - isn't it a bit dangerous to change the way po4a splits a file into translated blocks, when people already rely on the tool to translate things? If they start using a newer version of the tool which splits markdown differently, can they convert their existing translations easily? I guess by extracting them from the generated markdown files, perhaps? It sounds like a pretty dangerous exercise. Are there any alternatives to po4a? I would prefer to investigate all our options before settling on a particular choice, since I don't want to waste translating effort. Best, Antonin On 23/03/2020 12:26, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > Hey all, > > I've been diving into po4a with the goal of making Markdown a lot easier > to use with Weblate. I heard mention that there has been some > discussion of this already in Weblate, so I'm writing to sync up with > any Weblate efforts here. > > The first specific question is: will Weblate implement Markdown parsing > in Python, or use po4a? Or do something else? > > Also, any thoughts on how Weblate can automatically detect Markdown in > PO/POT files so that it can automatically add md-text and other Markdown > checks and modes? > > FYI, two small but notable improvements were just merged in po4a: > > * type: Code fence info string should not be translatable > https://github.com/mquinson/po4a/issues/194 > > * text inside Markdown code fences is marked as "#. type: Plain text" > https://github.com/mquinson/po4a/issues/195 > > And I'm currently working on handling YAML Front Matter in po4a: > https://github.com/mquinson/po4a/issues/196 > > .hc > _______________________________________________ Weblate mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
