po4a - Versatile PO to/from other documentation formats converter po4a (PO for anything) eases translations and their maintenance, allowing gettext's usage on unexpected areas like documentation. In po4a each documentation format is handled by a module, that converts this format to/from PO. Formats handled by po4a-0.63 . asciidoc: AsciiDoc format. . dia: uncompressed Dia diagrams. . docbook: DocBook XML. . guide: Gentoo Linux's XML documentation format. . ini: INI format. . kernelhelp: Help messages of each kernel compilation option. . latex: LaTeX format. . man: Good old manual page format. . pod: Perl Online Documentation format. . sgml: either DebianDoc or DocBook DTD. . texinfo: The info page format. . tex: generic TeX documents (see also latex). . text: simple text document. . wml: WML documents. . xhtml: XHTML documents. . xml: generic XML documents (see also docbook). . yaml: YAML documents. man pages are encoded in UTF-8. To read them in other languages than English, do this for instance: LANG=ru_RU.utf8 GROFF_ENCODING=utf8 man Dependencies tree is as follows (all dependencies listed are available at http://slackbuilds.org). Po4a-0.63 | |-- perl-Module-Build |-- perl-YAML-Tiny. mandatory for the YAML module. |-- perl-text-WrapI18N to format po4a's warnings and error messages. Optional. | |-- Text::CharWidth. Mandatory |-- perl-Unicode-LineBreak, includes module Unicode::GCString to compute text width, neeeded by AsciiDoc to determine two line titles in encodings different from ASCII. Mandatory for TEXT module. |-- perl-MIME-Charset. Mandatory |-- perl-Encode-EUCJPASCII. Optional |-- perl-Encode-HanExtra. Optional. |-- perl-Encode-JISX0213. Optional |-- perl-Encode-ISO2022. Mandatory In addition, perl-Test-Pod allows to run the test for the POD format Note: by default the SlackBuild does not run ./Build test, because these tests: t/cfg-multi.t t/cfg-single.t t/cfg-split.t fail if the script is run by root or even using fakeroot, which has been acknowledged upstream. All tests have been successfully passed running '/Build test' by the maintainer as regular user. If you want to check by yourself, un-comment the lines 82 and 83 in the SlackBuild. You will then need to comment them out to run the script again as root to actually build the package. WARNING: run this script with LANG set to an UTF-8 locale.