How to traduce...

| I have done my best to make Joe program easy to traduce. The only things which are to be changed for others languages is the RSC and the JXM files. The RSC will be edited with RSC editor such as INTERFACE, WERCS or RSC3. You can modify all text save the program informations ("About the..."). But be carefull to respect the objects order. You can put your name in the "Information" window-dial, between my name and the scroll-text, and reSort the form-dial (the scroll text MUST be the last object). Please do not change the state or flags of the objects. You only have to traduce the JOE_NB.RSC file. You can copy and paste for the JOE_C.RSC the icon-bar and the 3D-menu. Then RESPECT the order of trees in the RSC. If you're not sure of your manipulations in a dial, just Sort it. The JXM files will be edited under Joe (or another text editor) with CR+LF endlines. Just translate the first line, the first 30 caracters of this line are taken by Joe to put them in the module calling pop-up. IMPORTANT :
As you well know, keyboards are not the same. The Control+Key works without restriction form a country to another, but not the Alternate+Key. Therefore, for the text macro, you have to modify specifically something in the RSC file: you will see in the "définir les macros" (F4) an image of the keyboard. Modify it to correspond to the keyboard of your language. Use major case letter (A to Z) and respect above all the order of the objects : reSort them to have a new key map. All that is not A to Z is considered as dead key.
I would appreciate you also traduce a part of the documentation (User's Guide, Greetings and Other Products only, keep this and the developpers page in English). If you think your traducing work is worth, then you can distribute what you have traduce as shareware, but you have no rights on the PRG files (JOE.PRG and JOE_modules are free), and no rights on another country translation. The French Pack is entire freeware. English version and translation is supported now by Joe Connor of Atari Computing, with cheap registration (about 30 Francs). One of the conditions of this agreement is that he brings free english translation to others translators such as Jens Hatlak of Germany or Vulgar from Poland.