.TH PREPARETIPS 1 "Jun 2006" "Trinity Desktop Environment" "translation tool" .SH NAME preparetips \- extract text from tips file .SH SYNOPSIS \fBpreparetips\fP .SH DESCRIPTION \fBpreparetips\fP is a script to extract the text from a tips file. It outputs the text so \fBxgettext\fP can add the tips to a PO file. PO files provide a human\-readable string format used for translations. .sp 1 \fBpreparetips\fP looks for \fIdata/tips\-en\fP as tips file. .SH SEE ALSO .BR xgettext (1) .SH AUTHORS .nf Matthias Kiefer <matthias.kiefer@gmx.de> .br .br .fi Please use http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org to report bugs, do not mail the author directly. .PP This manual page was written by Holger Hartmann <Holger_Hartmann@gmx.de> for the \fBDebian\fP Project (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. .PP On \fBDebian\fP systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common\-licenses/GPL.