Once ELAN has been started, you can change the language of the user interface at any time. To achieve this, choose
and select one of the available languages.The selected Language does not influence the content of the
produced or edited *.eaf
files in any way.
At present Catalan, Dutch, English, French ,German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish language modules are available. However, new languages can be easily added. If you want to provide a translation for a different language, please contact the ELAN development team.
Alternatively, you can immediately incorporate a new translation
as follows. In the directory locale
in the
directory where ELAN is installed, you will find the files
ElanLanguage.properties
and
SearchLanguage.properties
. These files can be used
as a basis for your translation. Copy the files to the directory
.elan_data (Linux and Windows) or Library/Preferences/ELAN (on Mac OS)
in your home directory and simply edit the entries in the files. To view
the result of the translation, click and select
.