markdown-gettext

A command line program to do i18n and l10n for individual Markdown files.

CommonMark compliant. All core Markdown elements are supported, as well as YAML front matter, table, and definition list.

Install

pip install markdown-gettext

Usage

You can use either md-gettext or markdown-gettext command

Extraction

md-gettext extract [-p PACKAGE] [-r REPORT_ADDR] [-t TEAM_ADDR] md pot

positional arguments:
  md                    path of the Markdown file to extract messages from
  pot                   path of the POT file to create

optional arguments:
  -p PACKAGE, --package PACKAGE
                        the package name in POT metadata
  -r REPORT_ADDR, --report-addr REPORT_ADDR
                        the report address in POT metadata
  -t TEAM_ADDR, --team-addr TEAM_ADDR
                        the team address in POT metadata

Generation

md-gettext generate [-l LANG] in-md po out-md

positional arguments:
  in-md                 path of the source Markdown file
  po                    path of the PO file containing translations
  out-md                path of the Markdown file to create

optional arguments:
  -l LANG, --lang LANG  language of translations

Notes

Some notes about how different elements are handled:

• Inlines: hard line breaks are replaced with <br />, newlines and consecutive spaces are not kept;
• Content of each HTML block isn't parsed into finer tokens but processed as a whole;

Development environment

• With Conda

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate mg
poetry install