poclean(1)

🧼 poclean(1) — the un-clean RTF glow-up, bestie

okay so you're on the poclean manual page, part of the Translate Toolkit fam — welcome, pull up a chair 💖

✨ NAME ✨

poclean — produces a clean file from an unclean file (Trados/Wordfast) by stripping out the tw4win indicators. that's literally the whole job. she takes out the trash so your file can slay 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

poclean [--version] [-h|--help] [--manpage] [--progress PROGRESS]
[--errorlevel ERRORLEVEL] [-i|--input] INPUT [-x|--exclude EXCLUDE]
[-o|--output] OUTPUT [-S|--timestamp]

like, that's the shape of it. read it, love it, type it 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so real talk, because this is the part people get wrong every single time: this does not convert an RTF file to PO/XLIFF. not her job, not her problem, she's not doing it 🙈

what she does do is produce the target file — with only the target text in it — from a text version of the RTF. that's the vibe. clean it up, keep the target text, ship it. no cap.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --version — show the program's version number and exit. quick lil flex, then she's out ✌️
• -h/--help — show this help message and exit. the classic "help me bestie" button 🎀
• --manpage — output a manpage based on the help. yes she can generate her own lore 👑
• --progress — show progress as: dots, none, bar, names, verbose. pick your fave little loading aesthetic ⭐
• --errorlevel — show errorlevel as: none, message, exception, traceback. i.e. how much of a whole saga you want when things go sideways 😭
• -i/--input — read from INPUT in po, pot, xlf, xliff formats. your raw, messy, un-clean starting point 🍓
• -x/--exclude — exclude names matching EXCLUDE from input paths. not them. block that energy 💀
• -o/--output — write to OUTPUT in po, pot, xlf, xliff formats. the clean, glowing after-photo ✨
• -S/--timestamp — skip conversion if the output file has newer timestamp. she checks the clock first, she's not doing redundant work 💅

like the formats: po, pot, xlf, xliff. in and out. those are the four. don't come for me with anything else 🙈

and that's the page, bestie 🌈 written under the Translate Toolkit 3.12.1 banner, same as the footer says — mwah, go clean something 🧚💜