Hello Erwin, On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:32:10 -0500 Dale Erwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/29/2011 11:16 PM, Tom Bell wrote: > > On 8/29/2011 4:43 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: > >> On 8/29/2011 1:53 PM, Sigrid Carrera wrote: > >>> Hello Erwin, > >>> > >>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:14:10 -0500 > >>> Dale Erwin<[email protected]> 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). > >> > >> > > I would recommend the following: > > http://contributing.openoffice.org/native-lang.html > > It is the contribution page for those wishing to help with furthering > > OOo and where you can get the list information for localized languages. > > Good luck! > > > > Something is amiss. Possibly due to the defection of Oracle... > > At the link you provide I find a 'how to join' link which takes me to a > site with this: > > You can become a member of the l10n project by registering at the > OpenOffice.org website the website. > > But when I click on the link I get this message: > > Not Found > The page you were looking for doesn't exist. > You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved. > > I get the same message when I click on the Membership link. Then I try > the mailing list page which tells me: > > The list where most of the communication takes place is > [email protected]. At the beginning, it's probably enough if you > join just this one. Subscribe by clicking on the Subscribe button under > the mailing list name. You can also subscribe by sending an empty > message to > > There is no subscribe buttom, so I choose browse the archives and find > that every message for the past two months contains the same text: > > [l10n-dev] ***SPAM detected in Finance.gov.bd*** Returned mail: see > transcript for details > > So I have to ask the question: Is the native language development stalled? I wish I could answer your question, but I don't know either. This link contains some information about the documentation project, but it also gives you some general information about the transition from Oracle to Apache and also a link to the new development list. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Introducing_OOoAuthors So maybe you have a better chance for an answer to your question at Apache? Sigrid -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
