Language Translation on LibreOffice

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#1

I have Ubuntu Linux 12.04 and LibreOffice 3.6.
Is there a language-translation feature in the 4.1 L.O. release?

Thank you.

*MA Kanthal*

#2

Not that I'm aware of - although I just use the English version I'm pretty active in the community and have never heard of a translation feature. Sounds like a cool idea (but very likely a nightmare to implement as you'd have to get the syntax of other languages programmed in).

Best,
Joel

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
What would you like to see translated? If it the menus, pop-ups,
dialogues and all the rest then on Windows go to

Tools - Options - "Language Settings" - Languages

All the various drop-downs there should list all different languages.
If your language is not there then either through your "package
manager" (Software Centre?) or from the proper LibreOffice website
then check the downloads pages to see if a suitable language is listed
there and download it. After installing that it should appear back in
those drop-downs
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

My interpretation was the question was could he live type and have LibreOffice translate his text to another language (I suppose I was thinking of something like freetranslation.com or google translate but built into the product). Perhaps I was mistaken

Best,
Joel

#5

"language translation feature".

If, by that term, you mean something that does automatic/machine
translation, then no. Sadly, that extension was broken during one of the
upgrades of LibO. (I don't know if it ever worked on Apache Open Office.
(Even when it worked, it was extremely fragile.) )

If, OTOH, you are content with a list of words, and how you translated
them, there is an extension with that functionality, but I don't know if
it works with either LibO or AOO.

jonathon