#380 Multi Lingual lyrics support

[Anonymous]

Hi all,
As has been pleaded before, it would be great to have multi-lingual support for lyrics. The world becomes more international and churches are reflecting this. Even the part of the world we life most people grow up with already 2 or 3 languages.
Some good examples for implementation can be seen in Songbeamer (supporting multiple languages to be presented at the same time) or Easislides (www.easyslides.com, bi-lingual support, also see screenshots of output).
Keep up the good work! Many thanks.

[Anonymous]

I second this feature! If you guys could make this happen, it would be awesome! Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

If you enter the song in 2 languages, it already exist...I have been using it with Chinese and English at the same time since version 1 and Opensong has been widely distributed in China since 2012.

[SirPL]

I also would like to see this feature in the next release.

[fresh24]

this is the only feature, I'm currently missing.

[Anonymous]

I'm also waiting for this feature

[Anonymous]

+1

[Siegfried Dreger]

I also would like to see this feature in the next release.

[Anonymous]

I would like to see this feature.

[Anonymous]

I'm also waiting for this feature

[Ralf Kinast]

it would be great to have multi-lingual support for lyrics

[Anonymous]

It would make life for the congregations in Germany easier if this would work. Please implement.

[Anonymous]

Honestly Guys. it is already in place. The source files is Unicode which supports multi languages. I am currently deploying Opensong in Chinese and English and have been doing so since 2011.

[Anonymous]

I guess we want something bit different. (Personaly) I'd like to have the ability of setting different styles for main and secondary language (ie. setting different color or font face for translation).

[Anonymous]

Yes. It's very confusing when one line is in English, the next in German and so on, and the Letters look all the same in style, size and color. With Chinese it only works because the characters look totally different. But thanks for your effort uploading the screenshot.

[Anonymous]

if I look at screenshot 1 of the original request, it can be easily achieved :D just type all in English then a line break followed by the 2nd language in a single [V1] setting.

The only reason why my lines alternates is because I keyed it in this way.

[Anonymous]

To be not so confusing, it should look like this:

[Anonymous]

How do you get that on the same page, the two different effects, I can not see how to do that, even in the same langauge. I can only change the font for the whole sheet, and not two different fonts in the item.

[fresh24]

A friend of mine hacked the 1.0 version ~8 years ago, sow we are still using this version. I think he tried to get the code into the main version but sadly, they didn't care at that time.

I think he has still the code but it was a quite dirty hack (e.g. doesn't work with printing and centered text...) but I think the effort wouldn't be so high to implemnt such a feature :/

[Anonymous]

Hi Anon, Justin here, how do you get the lines to be different fonts, to be on the same screen. "if I look at screenshot 1 of the original request, it can be easily achieved :D just type all in English then a line break followed by the 2nd language in a single [V1] setting."

I have been wanting to get two fonts in, where there is a different look, not neccessary a different language. But one to have the leader say something, and different font for the congregation response. ie, The Lord be with you
And also with you

[fresh24]

It is a old hacked version where V1L, CL (L at the end) ... automatically displays a verse in different font styles for every second row.

[Anonymous]

I got some churches in Belgium that would love this, we use english songs and for the elder people we do need translation. It's so chaotic if the subs and the original have the same color + size
This would really help us a lot if they could get that in :)

[Anonymous]

Hi, it is implemented in the latest Windows version!
Just put "L" at the end of V, C, ...

[Anonymous]

Have you missed this in the release notes for Version 2.2:

• Add new feature for bilingual songs: rendering a second language in a different style (thanks philipp)
  • Different styles will be applied to every second song line when the song section name ends with 'L'
  • The size and color can be adjusted in the presentation styles
  • The song editor highlights the different languages in the song text editor

It's probably about as dirty a hack as @fresh24 described it in his Post above. (sourceforge.net)

• Limitted style control
• limitted support for automatic line breaks and font scaling to fit the song section onto the slide
• no orinting support

but, hey, it's there at least.

I am currently working on improving the feature.