MuseScore - Music Scorewriter

Translations

If you want to contribute a translation of MuseScore follow these hints. The step for step instructions add as an example the new language "french" to MuseScore by creating the file mscore_fr.qm (fr is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code for french). It assumes you have downloaded the latest MuseScore source from the subversion repository and you are using linux:

Step 1:	Add a new language target by editing the script file gen-qt-projectfile. Insert line echo " $1/share/locale/mscore_fr.ts \\" below echo "TRANSLATIONS =":
Step 2:	Enter the build directory and type: make lupdate This generates the file "mscore/share/locale/mscore_fr.ts".
Step 3:	Edit "locale/mscore_fr.ts" manually or use the Qt linguist tool: linguist mscore_fr.ts
Step 4:	Save the edited file "mscore_fr.ts" from linguist and then in the build directory type make lrelease This produces the compressed translation file mscore_fr.qm.
Step 5:	install the *.qm files: as superuser type in the build dirctory: make install or for all debian based systems type sudo make install
Step 6:	Test: set the environment variable LC_ALL to the desired Language: export LC_ALL=fr Start mscore and test your translation: mscore

If you are using the windows version please ask me to create and install an mscore_xx.ts file for you to translate. The qt linguist is part of the qt package for windows available here from trolltech.