[Po4a-Devel] po4a for extracting Hugo markdown

Hello, One year ago at KDE we started using po4a for translating a part of our main website kde.org/announcements/releases. This is using the Hugo static generator. The goal was to do it on a small portion of the website and then extends to the entire website to finally i18n the entire website and it worked but there were a few problems with the extraction (related to the front matters and shortcode detection), because of that I decided to write my own extractor in python fixing the shortcomings of the po4a system. But recently I learned that po4a now supports, since the May "LockDown" release, extracting strings from yaml frontmatter. There is now only one problem related to Hugo markdown file extractions and it is the shortcodes. Hugo's shortcodes are a system of a macro with a syntax similar to HTML, e.g. {{< figure src="..." alt="Description" >}}. My script extracts the string "Description" but po4a extract the entire thing. This is quite problematic in my experience because translators tend to translate "figure", or some automatic tooling tends to replace the quotation mark with french guillemet and this breaks the entire website generation and each time needs some manual intervention fixing the translations (a quite stressful process shortly before a release). So I'm wondering if someone would be interested in adding this feature to po4a markdown extractor or guide a Perl newbie like me to implement it. This would allow me to stop maintaining a custom tooling and I think this should make many devs using Hugo for their system quite happy and if the structure is in place it could even be helpful for Jekyll that has a similar feature with a different syntax. Just for comparison, this is the output from my script: https://invent.kde.org/-/snippets/1275 and this is the output from po4a https://invent.kde.org/-/snippets/1274. And this is the script: https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org-announcements-releases/-/blob/mas... but it is quite ugly and this is doing a bit more than just extracting the content from the mardown files but also from the config files and the Hugo string messages. Regards, Carl Schwan https://carlschwan.eu