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5.9.4 Technical background

A number of Python scripts handle a part of the documentation translation process. All scripts used to maintain the translations are located in scripts/auxiliar/.

• check_translation.py – show diff to update a translation,
• texi-langutils.py – quickly and dirtily parse Texinfo files to make message catalogs and Texinfo skeleton files,
• update-snippets.py – synchronize ly snippets with those from English docs,

Python modules used by scripts in scripts/auxiliar/ or scripts/build/ (but not by installed Python scripts) are located in python/auxiliar/:

• manuals_definitions.py – define manual names and name of cross-reference Texinfo macros,
• buildlib.py – common functions (read piped output of a shell command, use Git),
• postprocess_html.py (module imported by www_post.py) – add footer and tweak links in HTML pages.

And finally

• python/langdefs.py – language definitions module