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authorSeb Bacon <seb.bacon@gmail.com>2011-07-12 15:21:47 +0100
committerSeb Bacon <seb.bacon@gmail.com>2011-07-12 15:21:47 +0100
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Notes about how to find translatable strings.
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@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ The Transifex project is at
https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/alaveteli/; you'll probably want
an account there (ask on the mailing list).
+# Finding new translatable strings
+
+To update the POT file with strings from the software source, run
+`rake gettext:find` from the Alaveteli software. This will also
+update all the PO files for all the languages, which you don't
+actually want, because these are all handled in Transifex; so you'll
+want to revert these files again using git.
+
# Pulling translations from Transifex
To update the local translation files using the Transifex command-line client, first install it: