How to translate Makelangelo
The latest github commit for Makelangelo adds multilingual support that’s both easy for translators and for users. It should work in all right-to-left languages.
How to add a translation to your favorite language
- surf to ./languages/ in your installation.
- copy english.xml to [english name of your language].xml.
- open your new file in a text editor.
- change <name>name of the language as it should appear in the software</name>. French could be written as Francais, chinese could be written in chinese characters.
- change <author>your name here</name>
- change <value>each thing</value>.
- save your file.
- restart Makelangelo.
- select your language from the preferences if it is not already set.
- finished your translation? Share it in the forums at http://marginallyclever.com so everyone can enjoy.
How to use a translation
You will be asked to select a language the first time you start the program. Any time after that you can see the selection dialog by surfing through the menu: Makelangelo – Preferences – Language will bring back the language selection dialog. After you change the language you will have to restart the program for it to complete update all buttons and menus.
New hotness
Check the date on this blog post. If it’s very new, you may find that the feature is only available to those who download the github project. Once we have a few languages in the system we’ll start rolling it out to everyone.
If you have any bugs or feature requests, please post them to http://marginallyclever.com/forum.
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