(white space)
(blank line)
“”
Spaces and tabs are considered white space. All contiguous white space is interpreted as one space.
A blank line is a line that contains only white space, comments or nothing. Blank lines are ignored.
Anything surrounded by double quotes is preserved as is (i.e., whit spaces is not compressed, comment delimiters have no effect).
Each directive contains a keyword followed by one or more arguments. Keywords and arguments are delimited by white space; if white space is required in an argument, the argument must be enclosed in double quotes.
7.2.1 The translate Directive
The translate directive specifies a translation type to be performed. There are one or more translation directives in the configuration file. This directive captures the information gathered from the GUI dialog in Figure 7.
The format of a translation directive is:
translate label
translate
label
A keyword that specifies this line is a translation type directive.
A
Format of the input files. The format names specified in Table
Input file path – specifies the directory from which the translator receives its translation work. The process must have read access to this directory. Each translation in a configuration files must specify a different input file path.
Format of the output files. The format names specified in Table
Output file path – specifies the directory to which the translator writes its translation results. The process must have write and file create access to this directory.
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