From 2aa1c21d58c1c4d0c9396f86e66d88224dafcd8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:18:21 +0000
Subject: Added the missing gettext package descriptions

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1789 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 appendixa/gettext-desc.xml | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'appendixa/gettext-desc.xml')

diff --git a/appendixa/gettext-desc.xml b/appendixa/gettext-desc.xml
index 4c59be861..96a0cb9b8 100644
--- a/appendixa/gettext-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/gettext-desc.xml
@@ -14,28 +14,36 @@ messages in the users native language rather than in the default English
 language.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>gettextize</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>The gettextize program copies all standard gettext files into a
+directory. It's used to make a package with gettext translations.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>msgcmp</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>The msgcmp program compares two raw translation files.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>msgcomm</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>The msgcomm program searches messages which appear in several .po
+files. It's used to compare how things are translated.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>msgfmt</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>The msgfmt program compiles raw translation into machine code. It's
+used to create the final program/package translation file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>msgmerge</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>The msgmerge program combines two raw translations into one file.
+It's used to update the raw translation with the source extract.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>msgunfmt</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>The msgunfmt program decompiles translation files into raw
+translation text. It can only be used if the compiled versions are
+available.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>ngettext</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>The ngettext program displays native language translations of a
+textual message whose grammatical form depends on a number.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>xgettext</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>The xgettext program extracts the message lines from the programers c
+files. It's used to make the first translation template.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>
 
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