$ cat foo.scm (define (foo bar) (_ "boom") $ xgettext --omit-header -L Scheme --keyword=_ -o foo.po foo.scm $ cat foo.po #: foo.scm:2 msgid "boom" msgstr "" ;;; ;;; Now with DSSSL ;;; $ rm foo.po $ cat foo.scm (define (foo #!key bar) (_ "boom") $ xgettext --omit-header -L Scheme --keyword=_ -o foo.po foo.scm $ cat foo.po cat: foo.po: No such file or directory