How can I add a new language?

All of the text that our products displayed to students is retrieved from a dictionary of words and phrases. We store a English version of this dictionary within the application subfolder. You can edit a copy of this dictionary to add support for any language.

To begin, find the roster folder. Within that folder is a subfolder called Apps. This contains yet more subfolders, one for each Notebook Press product that has be used on this computer. And within this application folder is the final subfolder which holds the dictionaries.

On a Mac, you might therefore find a language support folder at
/Library/Application Support/Notebook Press/Apps/MathOne/Languages

This languages folder contains a file called dictionary.txt. Copy this file, and give the copy a new name (dutch.txt, for example). You can now edit this new file, and change the values of each entry in this list of words and phrases. The first word on each list is the keyword that the program uses to locate each entry. On the right-hand side of each equals side is the value which will be displayed by the program.

The very first entry (*Language=) identifies the name of the language for this translation. That name is displayed in the pull-down menu that allows to user to switch to their preferred language.

This file can contain foriegn alphabets and accented letters. The format of this file is Unicode (UTF-8). Before sure to select this format/encoding when saving your new file.

One final note ... if you do create a new language file, please consider sending that file to Notebook Press, so that we can share it with others. We would be happy to acknowledge your help on our website.