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<title>Preferences</title>


<sect1 id="preferences-overview">
<title>Global and project settings</title>

<para>
From KBabel 1.10 (KDE 3.4) on, KBabel has the concept of projects and therefore
the settings have been split in two categories:
the global settings and the project settings (also called project configuration).
</para>

<important><para>
&GNU; gettext uses a term called "project", which has nothing to do with
KBabel's projects. &GNU; gettext means by project an application which is
related to the <acronym>PO</acronym> file. For KBabel, a project is
much bigger. It can mean a set of applications, like &kde;.
</para></important>

<para>
KBabel has <emphasis>always</emphasis> a current project, even if it is the
default project. KBabel has not mode without any project. A project is always
for KBabel's editor and KBabel's catalog manager.
</para>


<sect2 id="preferences-limitations">
<title>Known limitations of the current implementation</title>

<para>
Unfortunately the current implementation of projects has a few known problems.
</para>

<para>
An example is that in the global settings, there is no setting for the default user,
his/her default language and other similar important global user data. It means that such
data must be entered again each time that a new project is created.
</para>

<para>
Another problem is the new project wizard. It does not ask enough information, especially
it fails to ask for the team email address. So it is recommended to check the project
settings after having run the wizard.
</para>

<tip><para>
Currently you cannot copy projects from inside KBabel, so apparently you cannot easily share good settings.
However you are free to copy the project outside KBabel and to load the copied project into KBabel.
</para></tip>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-non-kde-projects">
<title>Using KBabel for non-&kde; projects</title>

<para>
While &kbabel;'s defaults are oriented toward working with and for &kde;, &kbabel; can be used
to translate <acronym>PO</acronym> files of other projects. However mostly you will have to tweak the
settings to the need of your project. This is especially true for &GNU; and
&GNU;-like projects, which need quite different defaults than for &kde;.
</para>

<para>
One problem is that &kbabel; is relatively agressive when saving <acronym>PO</acronym> files and
replaces setting of the <acronym>PO</acronym> files by settings of the projects, if not told otherwise.
This might look very strange to somebody not used to &kde;. However &kde; has 900+
<acronym>POT</acronym> files to translate for the <acronym>GUI</acronym> messages only.
So for such a task, much automatisation is wanted. Taking time to set a project
is little compared to the time gained thereafter. Of course, as non-&kde; user, you
might be less fortunate. You need to do more settings, as the defaults are not entirely suitable
and you will not gain much by doing many translations, as &GNU; projects have typically
only one <acronym>POT</acronym> file to translate.
</para>

</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="preferences-global">
<title>&kbabel; global settings</title>

<para>
To show the Preferences dialog choose
<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Configure
KBabel...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from &kbabel;'s menu.  It uses a
structured configuration dialog which makes it very easy to find an
option without having to perform an extensive search for it.
</para>

<sect2 id="preferences-editor">
<title>Edit</title>
<para>
The editor preferences category is divided in 3 subwindows:
<guilabel>General</guilabel>, <guilabel>Appearance</guilabel>,
<guilabel>Spell Check</guilabel> and <guilabel>Fonts</guilabel>.
All these settings customize how the editor behaves and looks.
</para>

<sect3 id="preferences-editor-general">
<title>General</title>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Dialog Edit General</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pref_edit_general.png" format="PNG"/>
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<textobject><phrase>Dialog Edit General</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>This section contains a set of checkboxes.</para>

<para>The first checkbox in the upper side sets if the fuzzy status is
reset automatically when a character is inputted into the MsgStr
editor.  When this option is disabled you have to manually choose
<menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Unset Fuzzy Status
</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or use the <keycombo
action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>U</keycap></keycombo> shortcut.  Note
that this means the string <literal>, fuzzy</literal> is removed from
the entry's comment.</para>

<para>Next option allows you to enable <quote>clever</quote> editing,
where editor automatically inserts special characters escaped
correctly, &eg; <literal>\t</literal> after pressing
<keycap>Tab</keycap> and it allows special handling of
<keycap>Enter</keycap>.</para>

<para>
The lower checkboxes are very useful in assisting, not for the
correctness of the translation, but if the translated string
is a suitable replacement for the original.  For
example, many messages represent menu items with keyboard accelerator
and C-like formatted strings whose structure must remain intact once
translated.
</para>

<variablelist>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Check Arguments</guilabel></term>
    <listitem>
    <para>
    When this option is selected, C-format strings in the original and
    the translation are checked to ensure the number of
    format sequences and the order are consistent.
    </para>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Check Accelerator</guilabel></term>
    <listitem>
<para>When this option is selected, &kbabel; checks if the number
accelerator characters is identical in both the original and the
translated string.  Note that accelerator marker is &amp; (but not in
every programming toolkit). See the <link
linkend="preferences-project-miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</link> section below
to find how to change a keyboard accelerator.</para>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Check Equation</guilabel></term>
    <listitem>
    <para>
    This is a feature for the &kde; project development.
    <filename>.desktop</filename> files are simply
    text files which store various parameters in
    <literal>value=key</literal> format. Some of
    these <literal>key</literal>s are translatable.
    The only restriction is to maintain the left
    side of equality unchanged. Equation check
    allows you to spot many errors determined
    by the fuzzy <command>msgmerge</command> algorithm.
    Note that there are situations where this function
    generates false errors on some PO-files.
    </para>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Look for Translated Context Info</guilabel></term>
    <listitem>
<para> Some original messages are marked with context information to
mark them as being unique even if they represent same word.  This is
because many simple words, such as <quote>Save</quote>, are translated
into many languages.  Context information is marked with
<literal>_:</literal>. Many unexperienced translators translate the
context information and fill their PO files with garbage.  Check this
box to make sure you will be warned about these errors in a
file.</para>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Check Plural Forms</guilabel></term>
    <listitem>
    <para>
    If you are translating &kde; project, it uses a special kind of 
    syntax for specifying plural forms of messages. This check automatically
    counts the number of forms in <acronym>msgstr</acronym> and
    compares it with the number specified in
<link linkend="preferences-project-identity"><guilabel>Identity</guilabel></link>
tab. Incorrect number of plural forms can result in crash of an application.
    </para>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Beep on error</guilabel></term>
    <listitem>
    <para>
     Your system bell will beep when you switch
    on entries with errors like those described above.
    </para>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Change text color on error</guilabel></term>
    <listitem>
    <para>
    This is another type of warning about
    errors in current message.  It is a good solution for those who are
    hearing impaired or dislike bell noise. See also the
    <link linkend="preferences-editor-appearance">Appearance</link> tab
    to find out how to change the text color on errors.
    </para>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect3>

<sect3 id="preferences-editor-appearance">
<title>Appearance</title>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Dialog Edit Appearance</screeninfo>
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<textobject><phrase>Dialog Edit Appearance</phrase></textobject>
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<para>
These options let
you configure the appearance for the message editor. In upper part there
are 4 checkboxes:
</para>

<variablelist>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guibutton>Highlight syntax</guibutton></term>
    <listitem><para>
    Setting this option will enable syntax highlighting for
    special characters, accelerators and text background in the msgid viewer
    and msgstr editor. If don't have a monochrome display or have a visual impairment, you should enable this option. 
</para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guibutton>Highlight background</guibutton></term>
    <listitem><para>
    The background will be highlighted only for existing characters in
    the msgid and msgstr. This includes spaces.  This is useful if you
    don't want to see the surrounding quotes (see below) for the <acronym>PO</acronym> entry, and you will still
    be able to observe starting and ending spaces in a text line.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guibutton>Mark whitespaces with points</guibutton></term>
    <listitem><para>
    When you feel the need to count spaces
    and background highlighting is not your taste then you can
    check this option to have a point sign drawn in the middle of
    whitespace characters. Note that the point is a point sign in the
    center of a character box and is not a decimal point.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guibutton>Show surrounding quotes</guibutton></term>
    <listitem><para>
    If you think that viewing the terminal characters in msgstr or
    msgid's text line is better for you then check this option to view
    the surrounding quotes for every text line.</para>
    <para>If you are experienced editing <acronym>PO</acronym> files with
    ordinary text editors you may feel safer if you can track starting and
    ending double quotes in <acronym>PO</acronym> entry lines.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>
For the different items in edited text there are different color choices
to make editing easy.  Colors can be changed by clicking on color-picker
buttons.  From the 'select color' dialogs you can choose from standard
colors, custom colors or just pick a color from any part of your screen.
</para>

<variablelist>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Background color</guilabel></term>
    <listitem><para>
    This sets the background color for characters in the MsgID view
    and the MsgStr editor.  To change the general background color
    of edit boxes you must use the &kcontrolcenter;.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Color for quoted characters</guilabel></term>
    <listitem><para>
    Here you can adjust the color for escaped characters like
    (<literal>\&quot;</literal>) double quotes or (<literal>\n</literal>) newline. </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Color for syntax errors</guilabel></term>
    <listitem><para>
    This is the color for the entire text entry if errors are
    detected when you try to save <acronym>PO</acronym> file. Errors are
    triggered by not terminating identically both <acronym>msgid</acronym> and <acronym>msgstr</acronym>, or
    escaping characters incorrectly.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Color for c-format characters</guilabel></term>
    <listitem><para>
    This sets the color for a characters sequence like in
    C language <function>printf</function> or <function>scanf</function> functions. In general these start with (<literal>&percnt;</literal>) percent char and are continued by one char.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Color for keyboard accelerators</guilabel></term>
    <listitem><para>
     Keyboard accelerators start with (&amp;) <quote>ampersand</quote>
     character in &kde; but if you are translating for other projects there might be an different character marking the accelerator key.
See <link linkend="preferences-project-miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</link>
section below to find how to change keyboard accelerator.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para> The status for the current edited entry is marked by three
<acronym>LED</acronym>s.  For your convenience you can choose where to
put these <acronym>LED</acronym>s&mdash;either on the statusbar or in
the editor section (between the msgid and msgstr entry). If have
difficulties viewing some colors or you want to be able to track
<acronym>LED</acronym> status changes easily without moving your eye
you can select the preferred color using the color button chooser.
</para>

</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-search">
<title>Search</title>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Dialog Search</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pref_search.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>Dialog Search</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>
The search section allows you to customize various settings
for searching in previously translated strings.
</para>

<para>General settings are common for all search types.  If you check
the <guibutton>Automatically start search</guibutton> option then the
search is automatically started whenever you switch to another entry
in the editor.  Currently, there are three possibilities you can choose
from, but since &kbabel; can use dictionary plugins the available
dictionaries depend on those installed.  Using
<menuchoice><guimenuitem>Settings</guimenuitem> <guimenuitem>Configure
Dictionary</guimenuitem> <guimenuitem>...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
you can configure every search plugin.</para>

<para>The dictionary plugins installed by default are:</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>&kde; Database Search Engine</term>
<listitem>
<para>This new method is still in alpha stage of development
     and is based on &kbabeldict; which accompanies &kbabel;.
     See &kbabeldict; documentation for further info on
     configuring the search engine.
  </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>PO Compendium</term>
<listitem><para>The compendium is a normal <acronym>PO</acronym> file,
    which should contain a list of standard translations from your translation
    team. If you don't have one, you can also use a file that contains all
    the translations from your team (&eg; the <filename>$lang.messages</filename>
    file in the  &kde; Project, that can be found at
    <ulink url="http://i18n.kde.org/po_overview/">i18n.kde.org</ulink>).
  </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>PO Auxiliary</term>
<listitem><para>The auxiliary should help you find the
    context of a translation by looking up the same message in a message
    catalog of the same package but translated to another language. This way
    you can have a look how this message is translated in another language.
  </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>
You can also start searching manually by choosing an
entry in the popup menu that appears, either by clicking
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Dictionaries</guimenu><guimenuitem>Search Text</guimenuitem>
<guimenuitem>PO Compendium</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
or by keeping the search button on the toolbar pressed down for a while.
</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-diffmode">
<title>Diff</title>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Dialog Diff</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pref_diff.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>Dialog Diff</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>The <guilabel>Diff</guilabel> section holds settings how to
display differences in msgids. </para>

<para>Every difference can be displayed by two added parts and by characters removed from the text. For both you can specify the method of display and the color to be used. <guilabel>Highlighted</guilabel> means that the background of the corresponding characters will be shown in the selected color, while 
<guilabel>Underlined</guilabel>(for added characters) or <guilabel>Stroked Out</guilabel>
(for removed characters) will denote the changed parts by colored lines.
</para>
<para>
Diff mode needs to find the original <acronym>msgid</acronym> to compare
with. For this purpose, &kbabel; can use the <link linkend="database">translation database</link>
if you turn in on by enabling <guilabel>Use messages from Translation Database</guilabel>.
A second possibility is to use a tree of original PO files and specifying the root of
the tree in <guilabel>Base folder for diff files</guilabel>.
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-fonts">
<title>Fonts</title>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Dialog Fonts</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pref_fonts.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>Dialog Fonts</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>
This is a standard &kde; font chooser dialog with a little addition. You can
select to view only fixed fonts by checking the
<guibutton>Show only fixed fonts</guibutton> option.
This is highly recommended for easy translating. The font dialog lets you set
font family, style, size and encoding. The bottom box shows a preview of the
current font for user convenience.
</para>
</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="preferences-project-wizard">
<title>New Project Wizard</title>

<sect2 id="preferences-project-wizard-basic">
<title>Page 1</title>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Project Wizard Page 1</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pref_wizard_page1.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>Project Wizard Page 1</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>
The first page of the wizard ask about the basic data of the project.
</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Project name</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>
Enter here the name of the project, as it will be displayed in &kbabel;'s menu.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Configuration file name</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>
Select here a file for holding your project settings.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Language</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>
Select or enter here the language name used by this project.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Project type</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>
Select here the type of your project.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-project-wizard-catman">
<title>Page 2</title>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Project Wizard Page 2</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pref_wizard_page2.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>Project Wizard Page 2</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>
The second page of the wizard asks about settings related to the
Catalog Manager.
</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Base folder for PO files</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>
Select the base folder where your PO files are.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Base folder for POT files</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>
Select the base folder where your POT files are.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>
Type in or select the folders that contains all your <acronym>PO</acronym> and respectively
<acronym>POT</acronym> files. The files and the folders in these folders will then be
merged into one tree in &catalogmanager; window.
</para>


</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Checking Project Stettings</title>

<important><para>
As written earlier in this chapter, unfortunately the wizard is very simple and
therefore fails to ask for some important settings.
</para></important>

<para>
Now that you have <quote>finished</quote> your new project, you should verify the main settings in
<menuchoice><guimenu>Project</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Configure...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
Especially select the <guilabel>Identity</guilabel> page and fix the team email address in
<guilabel>Language mailing list</guilabel>.
(The default one created by the wizard from the language setting is only useful if you are part of a &GNU; project.)
</para>

<para>
If the project settings are not for KDE, it is recommended that you check the
<guilabel>Save</guilabel> page and checks the settings there.
</para>

</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="preferences-project-settings">
<title>Project Settings</title>

<para> To show the project setting dialog choose
<menuchoice><guimenu>Project</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Configure...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
from &kbabel;'s or &catalogmanager;'s menu.  It uses a
structured configuration dialog which makes it very easy to find an
option without having to perform an extensive search for it.</para>

<para>The left side of the preferences dialog lists the categories of
customizable items and the right side shows the corresponding tab for
the selected category.  &kbabel; keeps changes if you move between
categories, so when you're finally happy click the
<guibutton>OK</guibutton> button.  At any time you can use quick
help&mdash;just click on the question mark on the title bar and,
after the cursor has changed to an arrow with a question mark,
click on a button, label, or preference entry to find out more
about it.</para>

<note><para>
Pages for settings for &kbabel; (the editor) and for &catalogmanager;
are in the list.
</para></note>

<sect2 id="preferences-project-identity">
<title>Identity</title>

<para>These settings are for &kbabel;.</para>

<para>This section allows you to set standard fields for every
translated <acronym>PO</acronym> file.  These are your name, email
address, full language name, email address for your translation team
mailing list.  There is also a timezone field to track your
<quote>last modified</quote> time for <acronym>PO</acronym> files.
You can specify it as character sequence like <acronym>EEST</acronym>
or offset from <acronym>GMT</acronym> time like +0200 (&ie; for
Romania).  This information is used when updating file headers.  You
can find the options that control what fields in the header should be
updated in the <link linkend="preferences-project-save">Save</link> section of
the Preferences dialog.</para>

<warning><para>Character sequences for timezones are not standardized.
So you should not use the string set here in time specification for
saving in <link linkend="preferences-project-save">Save</link> tab. You should
use <literal>%z</literal> instead.</para></warning>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Number of singular/plural forms</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para> Use this for setting number of plural forms for your
language. For example, it is 2 for German (one for the singular and
one for the plural form).</para>

<note><para>This feature is currently implemented only for plural forms format  used in &kde;. It does not work with &GNU; gettext plural forms.</para></note> 
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-project-save">
<title>Save</title>

<para>These settings are for &kbabel;.</para>

<para><remark>
TODO This seems to document only the "General" tab but not the "Header" and "Copyright" ones
</remark></para>

<para>
This section allows you to edit the options for <acronym>PO</acronym> file saving. The first 
group of checkboxes controls general behavior for actions
performed in <acronym>PO</acronym> file saving.
</para>

<variablelist>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guibutton>Update header when saving</guibutton></term>
    <listitem><para>
Check this button, to update the header information of the file
every time it is saved. The header normally keeps information
about the date and time the file was last updated,the last translator
etc. You can choose which information you want to update from the
<guilabel>Fields to update</guilabel> checkboxes area below. Fields
that do not exist are added to the header.  If you want to add
additional fields to the header you can edit the header manually by
choosing <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Edit
Header</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the editor window.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guibutton>Check syntax of file when saving</guibutton></term>
    <listitem><para>
Check this to automatically check syntax of file with
<userinput><command>msgfmt</command> --statistics</userinput> when
saving a file. You will only get a message if an error occurred. You
should keep this validation enabled unless you know what you are doing.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>If you do not want to touch some fields in a <acronym>PO</acronym>
file header or want to force updating of specific fields, there are five
checkboxes which control this: revision date, <acronym>PO</acronym> file
language, text encoding, last translator name, charset. If a field
does not exist, it is appended to the header. If you want to add other
information to the header, you have to edit the header manually by
choosing <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Edit
Header</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the editor window. Deactivate
<guibutton>Update header when saving</guibutton> above if you don't
want to have the header updated.</para>

<para>For date and time of the header field
<emphasis>PO-Revision-Date</emphasis> you can choose one of the
formats: <guilabel>Default</guilabel>, <guilabel>Local</guilabel>, <guilabel>Custom</guilabel>.</para>

<important><para>
You should keep the default setting of <guilabel>Default</guilabel>. The two other settings
make that the generated <acronym>PO</acronym> file is not a standard &GNU; gettext <acronym>PO</acronym> file
anymore, so this should be avoided.
</para></important>

<itemizedlist>
  <listitem><para>
    <guilabel>Default</guilabel> is the format normally used in <acronym>PO</acronym> files.
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
    <guilabel>Local</guilabel> is the format specific to your country.
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
    <guilabel>Custom</guilabel> lets you define your own format, where you
    can use the following C-like format strings:
    <table>
      <title>Year</title>
      <tgroup cols="3">
        <thead>
          <row>
            <entry>Format</entry><entry>Meaning</entry><entry>Range</entry>
          </row>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <row>
            <entry>%y</entry><entry>year</entry><entry>00 to 99</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%Y</entry><entry>year</entry><entry>0001 to 9999</entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
      </tgroup>
    </table>
    <table>
      <title>Month</title>
      <tgroup cols="3">
        <thead>
          <row>
            <entry>Format</entry><entry>Meaning</entry><entry>Range</entry>
          </row>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <row>
            <entry>%m</entry><entry>month of year</entry><entry>01 to 12</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%f</entry><entry>month of year</entry><entry>1 to 12</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%b,%h</entry><entry>month abbreviation</entry><entry>Jan to Dec</entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
      </tgroup>
    </table>
    <table>
      <title>Day</title>
      <tgroup cols="3">
        <thead>
          <row>
            <entry>Format</entry><entry>Meaning</entry><entry>Range</entry>
          </row>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <row>
            <entry>%j</entry><entry>day of the year</entry><entry>001 to 366</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%d</entry><entry>day of month</entry><entry>01 to 31</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%e</entry><entry>day of month</entry><entry>1 to 31</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%a</entry><entry>weekday abbreviation</entry><entry>Sun to Sat</entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
      </tgroup>
    </table>
    <table>
      <title>Hour</title>
      <tgroup cols="3">
        <thead>
          <row>
            <entry>Format</entry><entry>Meaning</entry><entry>Range</entry>
          </row>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <row>
            <entry>%H</entry><entry>hour</entry><entry>00 to 23</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%k</entry><entry>hour</entry><entry>0 to 23</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%i</entry><entry>hour</entry><entry>1 to 12</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%I</entry><entry>hour</entry><entry>01 to 12</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%p</entry><entry></entry><entry>AM or PM</entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
      </tgroup>
    </table>
    <table>
      <title>Minute, Second, Timezone</title>
      <tgroup cols="3">
        <thead>
          <row>
            <entry>Format</entry><entry>Meaning</entry><entry>Range</entry>
          </row>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <row>
            <entry>%M</entry><entry>minute</entry><entry>00 to 59</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%S</entry><entry>second</entry><entry>00 to 59</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%Z</entry><entry>timezone</entry><entry>(given in identity settings)</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>%z</entry><entry>timezone</entry><entry>(numeric offset as specified by system settings)</entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
      </tgroup>
    </table>
  </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<note><para>
The option to select the date format for the <acronym>PO</acronym> file is considered to be deprecated,
and will probably be removed in a future version of KBabel.
</para></note>

<para>The lower group covers encoding options for <acronym>PO</acronym>
files when saving. If you work on the &kde; project you should be aware
that at least <acronym>PO</acronym> files <emphasis>must</emphasis> be UTF-8 encoded in &kde;.
Alternatively you can select the encoding corresponding to your locale.
If, for some reason, you do not want to accidentally change the current PO
file encoding, turn on <guibutton>Keep the encoding of the
file</guibutton>.</para>

<caution><para>
For reason of informtation interchange, &GNU; gettext limits the encodings allowed for a
<acronym>PO</acronym> file. &kbabel; does not know of this restriction, so the encoding
correspondig to your locale might not be suitable. (UTF-8 is always supported by &GNU; gettext.)
</para></caution>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-project-spellcheck">
<title>Spell Check</title>

<para>These settings are for &kbabel;.</para>

<para>Here you can set your spell checking preferences.  This is of 
interest if you have a dictionary file for the language you are 
translating to. Below are the items to consider setting:</para>

<variablelist>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guibutton>Create root/affix combinations not in dictionary</guibutton></term>
    <listitem><para>
    For new words added to the personal dictionary,
    the spell checker will create root/affix
    combinations to match more than one word (variations).
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guibutton>Consider run-together words as spelling errors</guibutton></term>
    <listitem><para>
    If this is turned on, joined words will be treated
    as errors.  However, such words are very common in
    the German language, which have a very large number of
    compound words, so it should be left turned off in that case.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Dictionary</guilabel></term>
    <listitem><para>
    From the popup list you can choose which dictionary to use.  Note
    that you must install an appropriate dictionary for your language.
    Check your ispell or aspell distribution to find out if you have
    one.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Encoding</guilabel></term>
    <listitem>
<para>
    Here you choose the encoding for your text.  This option is passed
    to the spellchecker, and is used as the encoding for your words
    dictionary.
    See the <ulink url="help:/tdespell">tdespell</ulink> documentation for
    more details.
</para>
<note><para>
The encoding selected here is not linked to encodings of the
<acronym>PO</acronym> files. Depending on the spellchecker
(especially in the case of  <command>ispell</command>),
you might not have much choice for the encoding.
(For example, a few Western European languages can only work
with <command>ispell</command> when using ISO-8859-1.)
</para></note>
    </listitem>

  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>Client</guilabel></term>
    <listitem><para>
    Backend program to use for spell checking. Currently either
    <command>ispell</command> (International Ispell) or aspell.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guibutton>Remember ignored words</guibutton></term>
    <listitem><para>
    Keep track of user-ignored words when spell-checking
    <acronym>PO</acronym> files.  It is very convenient to ignore the abbreviations or strange letter combinations you meet in &GUI; interfaces.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guilabel>File to store ignored words</guilabel></term>
    <listitem><para>    
    Here you can set location of the file for ignored words. Click
    on the folder icon to the right of the edit box.  The default is
    <filename>$<envar>HOME</envar>/.trinity/share/apps/kbabel/spellignores</filename>,
    where <filename>$<envar>HOME</envar></filename> is your home folder.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-project-source">
<title>Source reference</title>

<para>These settings are for &kbabel;.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Project Settings, source reference</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pref_proj_source.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>Project Settings, source reference</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>
This dialog is for setting how KBabel should construct the full path from each source references,
which are in the comments of each entry of a <acronym>PO</acronym> file.
</para>

<sect3>
<title>Dialog elements</title>

<para>
In the edit line <guilabel>Base folder for source code</guilabel>, you can set a
base folder where the source code of your project is. This defines the value of the variable
<userinput>@CODEROOT@</userinput>, which is described below.
</para>

<para>
In the group <guilabel>Path Patterns</guilabel>, you can define patterns or rules
to construct the paths with the help of a few variables:
<userinput>@CODEROOT@</userinput>, <userinput>@PACKAGEDIR@</userinput>,
<userinput>@PACKAGE@</userinput>, <userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput>,
<userinput>@POFILEDIR@</userinput>, which are defined below.
</para>

<note><para>
The variable <userinput>@PODIRFILE@</userinput> was introduced in &kbabel; version 1.11.1 (for &kde; 3.5.1).
</para></note>

<para>
With the button <guibutton>Add</guibutton>, you can add the line from the text box
to the list of used path patterns. With the button <guibutton>Remove</guibutton>,
you can remove the selected pattern from the list. With the buttons
<guibutton>Up</guibutton> and <guibutton>Down</guibutton>, you can change the priority of
the path patterns.
</para>

</sect3>

<sect3>
<title>The variables</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
<userinput>@CODEROOT@</userinput>: The base folder of the source code.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<userinput>@PACKAGEDIR@</userinput>: The folder of the package (i.e. <acronym>PO</acronym> file).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<userinput>@PACKAGE@</userinput>: The package name (i.e. <acronym>PO</acronym> file name without extension).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<userinput>@POFILEDIR@</userinput>: The folder of the <acronym>PO</acronym> file.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput>: The relative path given as source reference in the comment of an entry of the <acronym>PO</acronym> file.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<important><para>
The variables <userinput>@PACKAGEDIR@</userinput> and <userinput>@POFILEDIR@</userinput> have similar
meaning but not the same result. The variable <userinput>@POFILEDIR@</userinput>
will always hold the folder of <acronym>PO</acronym> file,
<userinput>@PACKAGEDIR@</userinput> might not. If the <acronym>PO</acronym> file was loaded
by the help of the &catalogmanager; then <userinput>@PACKAGEDIR@</userinput> has only the part of
the path, based on the <acronym>PO</acronym> base path defined for the &catalogmanager;
<link linkend="preferences-project-folders">(see below)</link>.
</para></important>

<note><para>
The variables <userinput>@CODEROOT@</userinput> and <userinput>@POFILEDIR@</userinput> can only be used at
the beginning of a pattern to be useful. The variable <userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput> can only be used at the
end of a pattern and is nearly mandatory.
The variables <userinput>@PACKAGEDIR@</userinput> and <userinput>@POFILEDIR@</userinput>
should not be used in the same pattern. The variables <userinput>@CODEROOT@</userinput> and <userinput>@POFILEDIR@</userinput> should not be used in the same pattern either.
</para></note>

</sect3>

<sect3>
<title>The default path patterns</title>

<para>
From &kbabel; 1.11.1 (of &kde; 3.5.1) on, there are five default path patterns:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
<userinput>@PACKAGEDIR@</userinput>/<userinput>@PACKAGE@</userinput>/<userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<userinput>@CODEROOT@</userinput>/<userinput>@PACKAGEDIR@</userinput>/<userinput>@PACKAGE@</userinput>/<userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<userinput>@CODEROOT@</userinput>/<userinput>@PACKAGE@</userinput>/<userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<userinput>@POFILEDIR@</userinput>/<userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<userinput>@POFILEDIR@</userinput>/../<userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<note><para>
&kde; projects need typically the third pattern.
The last pattern is typical for &GNU; projects, where the source references are related to
the parent of the directory where the PO file is.
</para></note>

</sect3>

<sect3>
<title>Creating New Path Patterns</title>

<para>
In most cases the default path patterns should be enough, whatever
the project is for KDE (assuming that you have set the correct base directory)
or if the project is a &GNU; one (or structured like a &GNU; project).
</para>

<note><para>
For &kde;, some <acronym>PO</acronym> files do not contain enough information
(including the file path and name) for &kbabel; to find the right source file
that is supposed to be refered. To fix that you would need precise path patterns
for such files, which is nearly impossible to define by the numbers of such files
in &kde;. But if you work often with such a file, may be it is worth to set
a path pattern explicitely for supporting that <acronym>PO</acronym> file.
</para></note>

<para>
For creating your own path patterns, you can use the variables defined above,
but apart <userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput> not any variable is mandatory to use.
(To be exact, <userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput> is not mandatory either,
but not using it will probably lead to no result.)
</para>

<para>
An example of path pattern could be that you want to display the source reference
of &kde;'s file desktop_tdebase.po. In that case you will probably need a path  pattern like:
<userinput>@CODEROOT@</userinput>/<userinput>@PACKAGEDIR@</userinput>/tdebase/<userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput>
(compared to one of the default path patterns, the sequence <userinput>@PACKAGE@</userinput> has been
replaced by tdebase).
</para>

<para>
In case of really complex problems you can, of course, define an absolute path
without any variables beside <userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput>, like for example:
/home/usr/kde-source/tdebase/<userinput>@COMMENTPATH@</userinput> assuming that
/home/usr/kde-source/tdebase is the path where the tdebase source module is.
</para>

</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-project-miscellaneous">
<title>Miscellaneous</title>

<para>These settings are for &kbabel;.</para>

<para>
<guilabel>Miscellaneous</guilabel> section
holds &kbabel; settings that do not fit anywhere else.
</para>

<variablelist>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><guilabel>Marker for keyboard accelerator</guilabel></term>
  <listitem><para>
  Here you can select your own character to serve
  as the keyboard accelerator indicator in a &GUI;.
  By default it is &amp; (ampersand), but in some
  programming toolkits it may vary.
  For example, in Gnome/GTK translations the underscore
  character <quote>_</quote>
  is the marker for the keyboard accelerator.
  </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><guilabel>Regular expression for context information</guilabel></term>
  <listitem><para>
  For inexperienced users "regular expression" may sound strange.
  So you are advised to change the default value
  only if you know what you are doing. Some &GUI; programming
  toolkits provide their own context information description
  methods. Consult an experienced developer if you
  translate <acronym>PO</acronym> files other than standard &kde; files.
  For the sake of completeness I will "translate" for you what the
  default regular expression means:
  "the text matches if it starts with _: and is followed
  by one or more characters and ends with a newline".
  </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>

<!-- Catalog Manager project settings -->

<sect2 id="preferences-project-folders">
<title>Project folders</title>

<para>These settings are for &catalogmanager;.</para>

<para>
Here are two edit lines with folder buttons.
Type in or select the folders that contains all your <acronym>PO</acronym> and respectively
<acronym>POT</acronym> files. The files and the folders in these folders will then be
merged into one tree in Catalog Manager window.
</para>

<para>
Below you can turn on and off if:
</para>

<variablelist>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guibutton>Open files in new window</guibutton></term>
    <listitem><para>
      If this is activated all files that are opened from the Catalog
      Manager are opened in a new window.
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><guibutton>Kill processes on exit</guibutton></term>
    <listitem><para>
      If you check this, &kbabel; tries to kill the processes that are not
      exited already when the program closes by sending a kill signal to them.
     <note><para>
       It's not guaranteed that the processes are killed.
     </para></note>
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
    <term><guibutton>Create index for file contents</guibutton></term>
    <listitem><para>
      If you check this, &kbabel; will create an index of contents for every 
      file in the tree. This index is then used in find/replace operations. 
      <warning><para>There is a large speed trade-off. If you enable 
      <guibutton>Create index for file contents</guibutton>, the updating of 
      file information will be much slower. On the other hand, it speeds up
      find/replace operations considerably.</para></warning>
    </para></listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-project-folder-commands">
<title>Folder Commands</title>

<para>These settings are for &catalogmanager;.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Project Settings,folder commands</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pref_proj_folder_commands.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>Project Settings, folder commands</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>
Here you can insert commands you want to execute in folders from the
Catalog Manager. The commands are then shown in the submenu
<menuchoice><guimenuitem>Commands</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
in the Catalog Manager's context menu.

</para><para>
Insert in the <guilabel>Command Label</guilabel> field the
label of the command. The label can be chosen freely and is only used to be displayed
in the menu. In the <guilabel>Command</guilabel> field insert the command you want to
have executed when selecting the corresponding menu item. Then press the <guibutton>Add</guibutton>
button to add the command to your available commands.
To edit a command, select it, press the
<guibutton>Edit</guibutton> button and press <guibutton>Add</guibutton> after you have
finished. To remove a command, select it from the list and press the
<guibutton>Remove</guibutton> button. If you want a different order in the contextual
submenu, you can use the up and down buttons.

</para><para>
The command is executed through your default shell, so you can execute
multiple commands at once by separating them with a semicolon, and you can set environment
variables if you need to. The commands are executed in the (<acronym>PO</acronym> file) folder you have
selected in the Catalog Manager.

</para><para>
The following strings will be replaced in a command:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
  <listitem><para>
    <userinput>@PACKAGE@</userinput>: The name of the folder without path
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
    <userinput>@PODIR@</userinput>: The name of the <acronym>PO</acronym>-folder with path
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
    <userinput>@POTDIR@</userinput>: The name of the template folder with path
  </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>
E.g.: If you want to execute <command>make</command> and then <command>make
install</command> you could insert in <userinput>Make install</userinput> in the 
<guilabel>Name</guilabel> field, and <userinput>make; make install</userinput> 
in the <guilabel>Command</guilabel> field. If you then select 
<menuchoice><guimenuitem>Commands</guimenuitem>
<guimenuitem>Make install</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
from the context menu of a folder, the commands listed above will be
executed in that folder.
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-project-file-commands">
<title>File Commands</title>

<para>These settings are for &catalogmanager;.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Project Settings, file commands</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pref_proj_file_commands.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>Project Settings, file commands</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>
Here you can insert the commands you want to execute on files from the Catalog
Manager. The commands are then shown in the submenu
<menuchoice><guimenuitem>Commands</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the Catalog
Manager's context menu.
</para>

<para>
Insert in the <guilabel>Command Label</guilabel> field the label of the command. The label can be
chosen freely and is only used to be displayed in the menu. In the 
<guilabel>Command</guilabel> field insert the command you want to have executed when
selecting the corresponding menu item. Then press the <guibutton>Add</guibutton> button
to add the command to your available commands. To edit a command, select it, press
the <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> button and press the <guibutton>Add</guibutton> button after you have
finished. To remove a command, select it from the list and press the
<guibutton>Remove</guibutton> button. If you want a different order in the contextual
submenu, you can use the up and down buttons.

</para><para>
The command is executed through your default shell, so you can execute
multiple commands at once by separating them with a semicolon, and you can
set environment variables, if you need. The commands are executed in the
(<acronym>PO</acronym> file) folder, in which the file, you have selected in the Catalog
Manager, is.

</para><para>
The following strings will be replaced in a command:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
  <listitem><para>
    <userinput>@PACKAGE@</userinput>: The name of the file without path and extension
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
    <userinput>@POFILE@</userinput>: The name of the <acronym>PO</acronym> file with path and extension
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
    <userinput>@POTFILE@</userinput>: The name of the corresponding template file
    with path and extension
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
    <userinput>@PODIR@</userinput>: The name of the folder the <acronym>PO</acronym> file is in, with path
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
    <userinput>@POTDIR@</userinput>: The name of the folder the template file is
    in, with path
  </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
For example, if you want to merge the template file into your <acronym>PO</acronym> file you could
insert <userinput>Merge</userinput> in the <guilabel>Name</guilabel> field and
<userinput>msgmerge @POFILE@ @POTFILE@ &gt; @PACKAGE@.new &amp;&amp; mv @PACKAGE@.new
"@PACKAGE@.po</userinput> in the <guilabel>Command</guilabel> field. 
If you then select
<menuchoice><guimenuitem>Commands</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Merge</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
from a file's context menu, the <acronym>PO</acronym> file will be merged with its template file.
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-project-catalog-manager">
<title>Catalog Manager</title>

<para>These settings are for &catalogmanager;.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Project Settings, &catalogmanager;</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pref_proj_catman.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>Project Settings, &catalogmanager;</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>The checkboxes switches on or off the corresponding column of the &catalogmanager;'s view.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="preferences-project-diff">
<title>Diff</title>

<para>These settings are for &catalogmanager;.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Project Settings, diff</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pref_proj_diff.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>Project Settings, diff</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para><remark>TODO</remark></para>

</sect2>

</sect1>
</chapter>