Hello Guillem, thanks for your interest.

I was thinking about a specific mode=eof that would not need a position nor a 
boundary to put the addendum at the end of the file. Would it fit your needs?

Bye, Mt.

----- Le 18 Mai 20, à 19:31, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org a écrit :

> Package: po4a
> Version: 0.58.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi!
> 
> While converting the dpkg man pages from troff to POD, I needed to
> convert the addenda too, which was using this header for all addenda:
> 
>  ,---
>  PO4A-HEADER:mode=after;position=^\.TH;beginboundary=FakePo4aBoundary
>  `---
> 
> Which is nice and generic. But for POD I had to use a different one per
> locale, such as:
> 
>  ,---
>   PO4A-HEADER:mode=after;position=^=head1 NOM;beginboundary=FakePo4aBoundary
>  `---
> 
> Because I was unable to match neither «^=encoding» nor the
> «GENERATED FILE» string inserted by po4a on the output files. And while
> the second might be fragile, as it could change, the former is part of
> the source, so under the developer control, and it would be nice to be
> able to use that.
> 
> Using a localized section name works, but seems problematic as it depends
> on the translation for that section not changing, and while certainly not
> fatal, it's a bit annoying. :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Guillem

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