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<bookinfo>
<title>The &kbabel; Handbook</title>

<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Matthias</firstname>
<surname>Kiefer</surname>
</author>
<author>
<firstname>Stanislav</firstname>
<surname>Visnovsky</surname>
</author>
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<date>2002-04-10</date>
<releaseinfo>0.09.60</releaseinfo>

<abstract>
<para>
KBabel is a suite of of an advanced and easy to use PO-file editor &kbabel;,
a multi functional &catalogmanager; and a dictionary for translators
&kbabeldict;.
It supports many advanced features and it lets you customize many options.
</para>
</abstract>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>KBabel</keyword>
<keyword>catalogmanager</keyword>
<keyword>kdesdk</keyword>
<keyword>gettext</keyword>
<keyword>translation</keyword>
<keyword>i18n</keyword>
<keyword>l10n</keyword>
</keywordset>

</bookinfo>

<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

<para>
&kbabel; is an advanced and easy to use PO-file (&GNU; gettext message
catalogs)
editor. It has many features, that makes editing and managing your PO-files
easy.  This includes full navigation capabilities, extensive editing
functionality, search functions, syntax checking and statistics function.
&catalogmanager; is a file manager view,
which helps you to keep an overview over your PO-files.
&kbabeldict; enables to translate any text using &kbabel; capabilities for
automated translation.
The &kbabel; suite will help you to translate fast and also keep translations
consistent.
</para>
<para>
With &kde; project continous growing the number of PO messages is over 47000
at time writing this documentation (plus another 20000 messages used for
translating application documentation). There is a need to stay organized and
consistent along all translations.
</para>

</chapter>

&using;
&catman;
&kbabeldictchapter;
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&menu;
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&glossary;

<chapter id="credits">
<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>
&kbabel;
</para>
<para>
Program copyright 1999-2000 Matthias Kiefer
<email>matthias.kiefer@gmx.de</email>
</para>
<para>
Contributors:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Thomas Diehl <email>thd@kde.org</email></para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Stephan Kulow <email>coolo@kde.org</email></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>

<para>
Documentation copyright 2000 Claudiu Costin
<email>claudiuc@geocities.com</email> and
Matthias Kiefer <email>matthias.kiefer@gmx.de</email>
</para>

<para>
Update for &kde; 3.0 copyright 2002 Stanislav Visnovsky
<email>visnovsky@kde.org</email>
</para>

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&underFDL;
&underGPL;

</chapter>

<appendix id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>

<sect1 id="getting-kbabel">
<title>How to obtain &kbabel;</title>

&install.intro.documentation;

</sect1>

<sect1 id="requirements">
<title>Requirements</title>

<para>
In order to successfully use &kbabel;, you need &kde; 3.x.
</para>

<para>
All required libraries as well as &kbabel; itself can be found
on &kde-ftp;.
</para>

<para>
If you want to use Translation database, you need Berkeley Database II.
</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="compilation">
<title>Compilation and Installation</title>

&install.compile.documentation;

</sect1>

</appendix>

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