Locale::Po4a::RubyDoc(3pm)

Locale::Po4a::RubyDoc3pm

Overview

The po4a (PO for anything) project goal is to ease translations (and more interestingly, the maintenance of translations) using gettext tools on areas where they were not expected like documentation.

Locale::Po4a::RubyDoc is a module to help the translation of documentation in the Ruby Document (RD) format (a language used to document Ruby) into other [human] languages.

Status of this module

This module has been successfully tested on simple Ruby Document files covering a good part of the format syntax.

A known limitation is that it fails to properly recognize the stacked structure of input Ruby Document: this implies that when, for instance, an EnumListItem consists of more than one Block, only the first Block is actually recognized as EnumListItem, while the subsequent ones are considered just as TextBlocks...

Options accepted by this module

This module supports the following option:

puredoc

Handle files entirely made of Ruby Document formatted text (without any "=begin" line).

By default, this module only handles Ruby Document formatted text between "=begin" and "=end" lines (hence ignoring, among other things, everything that precedes the first "=begin" line).

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

Authors

Francesco Poli <[email protected]>

From po4a 0.74-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.