Re: cont-fr interface ?

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Willi Egger wrote:
> Hi Renaud,
> 
> ASFAIK the interface is defined in a file called mult-com.tex. Adding a 
> new interface would mean to place translations of the defined items into 
> this file.

There are two big jobs to be done, one of which is optional:

  1) add translations to mult-com.tex and mult-con.tex, like so:


   \startcommands       dutch                            english
                        german                           czech
                        italian                          romanian
                        french

              language: taal                             language
                        sprache                          jazyk
                        lingua                           limba
                        langue
   ...

   \stopcommands

   Note: your translations have to be 7-bit clean. This is required
   because otherwise mayhem results when e.g. the french interface is
   used to typeset  documents in italian or czech.

   Each time, you add 'french' to the language list at the top, then
   add a new translation for each keyword.
   You *cannot* skip a translation within a command list (the number
   of translated items has to match up), but you *can* skip an entire
   command block (\startcommands ... \stopcommands).

   2) (optionally) translate the message libraries to french. Search
   for \startmessages in the source files. There are a lot of them,
   but you do not have to translate all (they will default to english).

About the only other thing is to create a cont-fr.tex that begins
with \def\defaultinterface{french}, and switches to french.

Taco