Hi Dale, I'm forwarding your question to the Apache list where OpenOffice development discussions are now taking place. Hopefully someone here has an answer to your question, about how to get started making a new language translation of OpenOffice.
Regards, -Rob ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dale Erwin <d...@casaerwin.org> Date: Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:43 PM Subject: [users] Re: Languages To: us...@openoffice.org On 8/29/2011 1:53 PM, Sigrid Carrera wrote: > > Hello Erwin, > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:14:10 -0500 > Dale Erwin<d...@casaerwin.org> wrote: > >> If this is not the proper forum, perhaps someone could point me to the >> proper one, but I am trying to find out what is necessary to be done to >> have a new language available for OOo. > > You might have to download a so called "languagepack" for the > language you want and have to install it alongside your OOo version. > > Once you have installed it, go to Tools -> Options -> Language > settings -> Language and choose there the default language you want. > You will have to close OOo completely (even the Quickstarter if you > use it) and restart OOo for the change to take effect. > > Hope this helps. > > Sigrid > After sending my email, I was afraid it would be construed that way. I don't mean adding a language to my installation that OOo already supports. I mean adding a language to those that OOo supports. I'm specifically thinking of the Neapolitan language (I dislike using the term dialect, but it is commonly referred to as an Italian dialect). -- Dale Erwin Lurigancho, Lima 15 PERU http://leather.casaerwin.org
