help pack configuration for other language

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#1

Hi!

I've installed LibreOffice with the english help pack because it is not available for my language. Is there a way to activate offline english help without changing the language of the interface? The interface is translated.

Thanks.

#2

Hello,
According to an AskLO thread, you cannot use a different language help pack for a LibreOffice installation.
It reads in part, "The help pack installed must agree with the language of user interface."
There are some workarounds, but none of them seem viable:
1. If you can. use the online help.
2. Install LibreOffice in English with a parallel install (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel).
3. Save the online help ti your computer with a website copier such as HTTrack (http://www.httrack.com/).
There is no direct way to access the help (that I know of) without having to do it from LibreOffice. The workarounds above just don't seem viable, but if you do need the LibreOffice help offline, you can try the workarounds.
I hope this helps!

Regards,
xmlhttprequest.open@gmail.com

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
The in-built help is not always perfect nor up-to-date and has a very
tiny team maintaining it and they seem to be a bit geeky sometimes.
The English Documentation Team are not involved in updating or
de-geekifying them.

The best help (in English) is the Published Guides from
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
(or from the official website or elsewhere (such as the Ubuntu 'Apps'
Store or iBookstore). From our official site or the wiki link you can
download them for free although i used their links to get me to the
bookstore and buy a few paper-back printed versions (partly to give a
financial donation to the project and partly to show off how good the
books are to my colleagues)

I'm probably going to be chucked off the mailing-lists now for being
too honest in this and certain other threads, such as the one about
avoiding using the internal back-end in Base.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

Hi Cristian,

I've installed LibreOffice with the english help pack because it is not
available for my language. Is there a way to activate offline english
help without changing the language of the interface? The interface is
translated.

Short answer : not easily, if at all. The help and localization packages
go together. When you install a help-pack, you also install localized
resources and these overwrite parts of the default installation. You
would probably have to alter the code and recompile LO for yourself in
order to switch off the default fallback behaviour which involves
connecting to the online help if the built-in help is not available in
your language. I have no idea how easy/difficult this might be., perhaps
it is a simple configuration file option, but I wouldn't know. You would
probably be better off asking this question on the l10n list that deals
with translating the interface and built-in help.

Alex

#5

Cristian Baboi wrote:

Hi!

I've installed LibreOffice with the english help pack because it is not
available for my language. Is there a way to activate offline english
help without changing the language of the interface? The interface is
translated.

Thanks.

You could try finding the folder containing the help files (C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 4.0\help\ in my Windows Vista installation). That should contain a folder corresponding to the language of help you installed (probably en-US, but may be en-GB if you installed UK English help). Try copying that folder, and name the copy to match your language code (if you're not sure what that is, let us know what your interface language is and we might be able to figure it out).

I don't really know how well this will actually work. Of course, where the help mentions which buttons to click or options to select, it will use the English names. Context-sensitive help may or may not work correctly. e.g. if you have the Format > Character dialog open, pressing F1 usually takes you straight to help on that dialog, but that might not work if the languages don't match - or it might work just fine, the easiest way to know is to try it.

If you ever uninstall the help pack, you'd need to delete the extra copy of the folder you created yourself.

Mark.

#6

În data de Sun, 09 Feb 2014 14:49:54 +0200, Mark Bourne <libreoffice-ml.mbourne@spamgourmet.com> a scris:

Cristian Baboi wrote:

Hi!

I've installed LibreOffice with the english help pack because it is not
available for my language. Is there a way to activate offline english
help without changing the language of the interface? The interface is
translated.

Thanks.

You could try finding the folder containing the help files (C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 4.0\help\ in my Windows Vista installation). That should contain a folder corresponding to the language of help you installed (probably en-US, but may be en-GB if you installed UK English help). Try copying that folder, and name the copy to match your language code (if you're not sure what that is, let us know what your interface language is and we might be able to figure it out).

It doesn't work. The help is not detected.