your patch failed for "OptItem"s. I have fixed it and I can confirm now that it works as expected: "make de.pox" creates a file with 15 messages from default.ui commented out.
Thanks for your suggestion. Please apply the patch.
Michael
Index: lyx-devel-1.3.Xcvs/po/Makefile.in.in =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/lyx/lyx-devel/po/Makefile.in.in,v retrieving revision 1.27 diff -u -r1.27 Makefile.in.in --- lyx-devel-1.3.Xcvs/po/Makefile.in.in 2003/01/12 21:48:10 1.27 +++ lyx-devel-1.3.Xcvs/po/Makefile.in.in 2003/01/26 21:44:19 @@ -274,14 +274,14 @@ $(srcdir)/default_ui_l10n.pot: $(top_srcdir)/lib/ui/default.ui awk ' \ - /Submenu/ { \ + /^[ ]*Submenu/ { \ line=$$0; \ sub(/[^"]*"/, "", line); \ sub(/".*/, "", line); \ printf("#: %s:%d\nmsgid \"%s\"\nmsgstr \"\"\n\n", \ FILENAME, FNR, line); \ } \ - /Item/ { \ + /^[ ]*(Opt)?Item/ { \ line=$$0; \ sub(/[^"]*"/, "", line); \ sub(/".*/, "", line); \