[Po4a-Devel] Experience with perl pod handling?

Hello po4a maintainers, we recently had a first translation of a perl man page in manpages-l10n. In your documentation (in the man pages) I read that you have lots of experience handling perl documentations, so I hope you can help me. The perl(1) man page introduces the macro .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text .ft CW .nf .ne \\$1 .. .de Ve \" End verbatim text and then perl.1 uses this to create tables, e.g.: Overview perl Perl overview (this section) perlintro Perl introduction for beginners perlrun Perl execution and options perltoc Perl documentation table of contents This table becomes #. type: IX #: debian-bullseye debian-unstable fedora-37 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron #: opensuse-leap-15-5 opensuse-tumbleweed #, no-wrap msgid "Overview" msgstr "Überblick" #. type: IX #: debian-bullseye debian-unstable fedora-37 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron #: opensuse-leap-15-5 opensuse-tumbleweed #, no-wrap msgid "Subsection" msgstr "Subsection" #. type: Plain text #: debian-bullseye debian-unstable fedora-37 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron #: opensuse-leap-15-5 opensuse-tumbleweed msgid "" "\\& perl Perl overview (this section) \\& perlintro Perl introduction for " "beginners \\& perlrun Perl execution and options \\& perltoc Perl " "documentation table of contents" msgstr "" "\\& perl Perl-Überblick (dieser Abschnitt) \\& perlintro Perl-Einführung " "für Anfänger \\& perlrun Perl-Ausführung und -Optionen \\& perltoc " "Inhaltsverzeichnis der Perl-Dokumentation" in the po file and then the resulting file looks like this: Überblick perl Perl-Überblick (dieser Abschnitt) perlintro Perl-Einführung für Anfänger perlrun Perl-Ausführung und -Optionen perltoc Inhaltsverzeichnis der Perl-Dokumentation So the formatting is broken, unfortunately some tables are much longer in perl.1 … Do you have any suggestions how to handle this, to unbreak the situation? I'm running out of ideas. Thanks! Greetings Helge -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann debian(a)helgefjell.de Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/