ecppl(1)

📦 version 2.2.1, in ubuntu jammy

✨ ecppl — the language-extractor bestie for ecpp 💅

okay so real quick: this is the manual for ecppl from the Tntnet users guide (section 1 of the manuals, iykyk). She's a little tool with one job and she does it immaculately. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

ecppl — the language-extractor for ecpp(7) 🦋

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

ecppl [-I dir] [-ln] [-o output-filename] ecpp-filename ...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So ecppl is the language extractor for ecpp. And ecpp? That's the template language used with tntnet, and she is internationalized, periodt. 🌍✨

Here's the tea 🍓: inside ecpp templates, the tag <i18n> literally changes the meaning of curly braces. A phrase that's enclosed in curly braces can be translated. At runtime, that phrase gets looked up in a language-library. This mode can be quit with the tag </i18n>.

⚠️ important caveat bestie: phrases must not have newlines or tabs. Like, at all. 💀

Every phrase that's marked as translatable gets extracted with ecppl and written to standard output, or to a specified output-filename, line by line. Chef's kiss, no notes. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -I dir — search include-files in dir. This option can be passed multiple times, and all the specified directories are searched in turn for include-files. She's thorough like that. 🔍
  • -l — extract language-phrases (this is the default, she's the main character here 👑)
  • -n — extract non-language-phrases (the plot twist 🙈)
  • -o filename — specify output filename. Where the extracted phrases go instead of stdout. 🎀

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

This manual page was written by Tommi Mäkitalo tommi@tntnet.org. Iconic of him fr fr. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

tntnet(1), ecpp(7), ecppll(1).

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