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.SH NAME
kbabel \- a PO-file editor for TDE
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B kbabel
.RI "[ " generic-options " ]"
[ \fB\-\-gotomsgid\fP \fImsgid\fP ] [ \fB\-\-nosplash\fP ]
[ \fB\-\-project\fP \fIconfig-file\fP ]
.RI "[ " file " ]"
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBKBabel\fP is part of a suite of programs for editing gettext message
files (PO-files).  It is designed to help you translate fast and
consistently.
.PP
This suite includes KBabel, CatalogManager and KBabelDict.  KBabel (this
program) is an advanced and easy to use PO-file editor with full navigational
and editing capabilities, syntax checking and statistics.  CatalogManager is
a multi functional catalog manager which allows you to keep track of many
PO-files at once.  KBabelDict is a dictionary to assist with searching
for common translations.
.PP
This utility is part of the TDE Software Development Kit.
.SH OPTIONS
Below are the kbabel-specific options.
For a full summary of options, run \fIkbabel \-\-help\fP.
.TP
\fB\-\-gotomsgid\fP \fImsgid\fP
Go to the entry with the given message ID.
.TP
.B \-\-nosplash
Disable splashscreen at startup.
.TP
\fB\-\-project\fP \fIconfig-file\fP
Load the configuration from the given file.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR catalogmanager (1),
.BR kbabeldict (1).
.PP
Full user documentation is available through the TDE Help Centre.
You can also enter the URL
\fIhelp:/kbabel/\fP
directly into konqueror or you can run
`\fIkhelpcenter help:/kbabel/\fP'
from the command-line.
.PP
If the TDE Help Centre is not installed then you can install the package
\fItdesdk-doc-html\fP and read this documentation in HTML format from
\fI/usr/share/doc/tde/HTML/en/kbabel/\fP.
.SH AUTHOR
KBabel was written by Matthias Kiefer <kiefer@kde.org>,
Wolfram Diestel <wolfram@steloj.de>, Andrea Rizzi <rizzi@kde.org>,
Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky@kde.org>, Marco Wegner <dubbleu@web.de>,
Asgeir Frimannsson <asgeirf@redhat.com>,
Dwayne Bailey <dwayne@translate.org.za>,
Bram Schoenmakers <bramschoenmakers@kde.nl> and others.
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This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).