How to add, switch off or change a project's languages
The language a story is written in is chosen when the project is made, as How to create or import a project describes. Everything after that is in Project settings, which you open from the bottom of the activity bar.
Add a translation language
Section titled “Add a translation language”- Open Project settings from the bottom of the activity bar. It is a set of pages down a rail: General, Languages, Writing, Narration roots and Capabilities.
- Pick Languages.
- Tick the language. Use Find a language to search the list.
- Save.
An empty translation is put into every passage bundle. The app’s own language is a separate setting, in the app’s settings.
Switch a translation language off
Section titled “Switch a translation language off”- Open Project settings and pick Languages.
- Untick the language.
- Save. If anything is written in it, you are asked once what to do with the words.
Unticking deletes nothing. The files stay, the editor keeps showing them marked retired, and readers stop being offered that language.
To remove the words, answer Delete them. That deletes the language’s file from every passage bundle and the wording of any choice written in it on your boards, from disk; version control is the only way back. Keep them is the default button: clicking through the dialog or dismissing it deletes nothing.
Change the language a story is written in
Section titled “Change the language a story is written in”- Open Project settings and pick Languages.
- Change the Written in dropdown. A note under it says what the change will do.
- Save.
Nothing is moved. Every passage gets an empty file for the new language, and everything you have written stays in the old language’s file as a translation. Until you carry the words across by hand, your passages play empty and the Messages panel calls the project untranslated. There is no migration for this.
Find translations that have fallen behind
Section titled “Find translations that have fallen behind”- Open a passage bundle. The locale chips along its top each stand for one language.
- Look for a dot on a chip: that translation is older than its source. Passages and translations explains how that is told.
- For the whole project, open the Messages panel (View menu, or the messages button at the bottom of the activity bar). It lists every translation that has fallen behind, for example “3 translations have fallen behind”.
Editing a passage and its translation together does not leave the translation behind. The check cannot see choice wording.