Localization in Word Mac Plugin

bbbear2002 · November 20, 2017

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How to localize Zotero Plugin in Word Mac? Many thanks!!!

bbbear2002 · November 20, 2017

Although the icons in the Zotero Plugin in Word Mac is not retina-ized.

bwiernik · November 20, 2017

The Word plugins are not currently localized, sorry.

bbbear2002 · November 20, 2017

I can help localize the strings. So how would i begin with?

adomasven · November 20, 2017

There's no straightforward way to localize the plugin at the moment. As such we currently have no plans to do it.

bbbear2002 · November 20, 2017

@bwiernik @adomasven

I have localized the Word plugin almost 90%. Please see:

http://i2.bvimg.com/619250/de57e75fe0ab00af.png

But yet this string cannot be found. Maybe this is in Word not in Zotero Plugin.

bwiernik · November 20, 2017

That string is located in /word/vbaProject.bin/Zotero.bas inside the Zotero.dotm archive.

As you've seen, it's certainly possible to localize the Zotero Word template file. The difficult part is efficiently switching between localized strings within the Word add-in based on the system locale.

bbbear2002 · November 20, 2017

@bwiernik thank you for your reply. Do you mean that it is difficult to let Zotero switch between languages?

adamsmith · November 20, 2017

More than that actually -- it's also difficult to effectively create those localizations in a way that they can be built easily from files translated by users. The framework Zotero is built on provides an easy way to do that with language strings being stored outside the actual code. That is not available as an option for Word.

bbbear2002 · November 20, 2017

@adamsmith thank you for your reply. Then how could i localize /word/vbaProject.bin/Zotero.bas? It seems only this string is not localized in my Word Mac plugin.

bwiernik · November 20, 2017

How did you edit the other strings in the Zotero.dotm template?

bbbear2002 · November 20, 2017

@bwiernik I had changed Zotero.dotm to Zotero.zip, and then edited the .xml file in it.

bwiernik · November 20, 2017

Okay, you need to similarly extract vbaProject.bin and edit the Zotero.bas file inside. (I’m not sure how to do this on Mac rather than Windows.)

bbbear2002 · November 20, 2017

The Zotero.bas file cannot be opened...

bwiernik · November 20, 2017

You should be able to open it in your text editor.

See that it is just a text file:
https://github.com/zotero/zotero-word-for-mac-integration/blob/master/build/template/Zotero.dotm/word/vbaProject.bin/Zotero.bas

bbbear2002 · November 21, 2017

@bwiernik thank you for your reply. Still i cannot open it, maybe because it is a developer source file...

bwiernik · November 21, 2017

What text editor are you trying to use?

adomasven · November 21, 2017

You should open Zotero.dotm with Word, go to Developer tab (enable it in Options), open the Visual Basic editor and change the string there, then save the template file.

You might need to move the file out of your startup directory before editing and move it back in afterwards.

bbbear2002 · November 21, 2017

Thank you @adomasven, the Zotero.dotm is fully localized. Please see:

http://i4.bvimg.com/619250/606ebb5071f20f2c.png