Package: po4a Version: 0.47-2 There are some bugs/misfeatures in the handling of markdown with po4a. The percent prefixed document title and authors (understood by pandoc) are not properly handled, and a title get a spurious newline. Here is a demonstration:
cat > test.md <<EOF % The document title % The document first author; The document second author A nice title ============ The first paragraph. The second paragraph. * Some bullet point * Another bullet point EOF % po4a-gettextize -f text -o markdown -m test.md # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2018-04-05 20:57+0200\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <l...@li.org>\n" "Language: \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #. type: Plain text #: test.md:3 msgid "% The document title % The document first author; The document second author" msgstr "" #. type: Title = #: test.md:5 #, no-wrap msgid "A nice title\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: test.md:8 msgid "The first paragraph." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: test.md:10 msgid "The second paragraph." msgstr "" #. type: Bullet: ' * ' #: test.md:12 msgid "Some bullet point" msgstr "" #. type: Bullet: ' * ' #: test.md:12 msgid "Another bullet point" msgstr "" % Note how the title and author (first and second line starting with '%') are joined togheter as one string. Also note how '\n' is included at the end of 'A nice title'. It should not be there. If you create a PDF from the markdown file using 'pandoc -t latex test.md -o test.pdf', you can see how it was intended to be interpreted. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
