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Code development

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Developer handbook

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Translating

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:

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 ="
2. Enter the build directory and type:
   make lupdate
   This generates the file "mscore/share/locale/mscore_fr.ts".
3. Edit "locale/mscore_fr.ts" manually or use the Qt linguist tool:
   linguist mscore_fr.ts
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.
5. install the *.qm files: as superuser type in the build dirctory:
   make install
   or for all debian based systems type
   sudo make install
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.