Hello,

I would say that you want to use quotes around the content passed to --option. Something like --option "debut tablecells". But I'm not sure.

The easier would certainly be to change to po4a(1) binary instead of using po4a-updatepo and friends.
https://po4a.org/man/man1/po4a.1.php

Bye, Mt.

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----- Le 1 Nov 20, à 20:25, Boyd Kelly <bkelly@coastsystems.net> a écrit :
Thanks for such a quick response on a sunday evening...   I saw that and tried this.  Maybe I just don't have the right syntax??  (also added the options to po4a-gettextize)

 if ! po4a-updatepo \
            --format asciidoc --option debu tablecells \
            --master "$file" \
            --master-charset "UTF-8" \
            --copyright-holder "$ME" \
            --package-name "$PACKAGE" \
            --package-version "$VERSION" \
            --verbose \
            --po "$po_file" ; then
        echo ""
        echo "Error updating $lang PO file for: $file"
      else

A sample table I have is like:
[width="100%",cols="2,8",frame="topbot",options="none",stripe="even"]
|===
|Yet|Une action qui ne s'est pas produit jusqu'au présent. (encore)
|Still|Une action qui continue à se produire, qui n'est jamais arrétée.
|Again|Une action discontinue qui reprend.
|Even|Nuancé avec 'still'|Une chose qui s'est arrétée/épuisée, mais il y en aura...|(encore !)
|Yet again|Une action discontinue qui reprend au moins une fois mais probablement plus.
|===



On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 at 18:01, Martin Quinson <martin.quinson@ens-rennes.fr> wrote:
Hello Boyd,

welcome to po4a.

On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 04:25:23PM +0000, Boyd Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just getting started here, but I noticed that my asciidoctor tables are
> all being formatted by po4a-gettextize as a single unit. Is there any way
> of coercing po4a to make each table line a translatable message?  I have
> been poking through the man pages and tried -format asciidoc tablecells
> just to see if that would change anything, but no dice.   Any pointers
> appreciated.  Thanks
> bk

I think you're looking for the 'tablecells' option of this parser,
aren't you?

https://po4a.org/man/man3/Locale::Po4a::AsciiDoc.3pm.php


HTH, Mt.

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