Hello kcott, thanks so much for taking the time to reply and to put my post on the front page! Apologies, I should have been clearer - TopTable is my Catalyst project, so effectively TopTable::Maketext is the equivalent of MyApp::Maketext, referred to in CatalystX::I18N::Maketext. maketext-demo.pl is just a file I'm calling manually to try and test it - the contents of this file and output from it are detailed in my reply to the original post.