Language Support in Reports

The goal of the present help page is to clarify the extent of language support in the application and most specifically in its LaTeX-based reports.

Please note: the web-based user interface to Project Hirtius is currently only provided in English, and there is no plan at present to change this.

Content language as global application default

In the Global Definitions File, your administrator should have defined a global default for the content language. This should represent the language in which the majority of the content stored in your instance of Project Hirtius will be written.

Moreover, it will also determine the language that will be used for all meta-data (such as titles, section headings, etc.) in the following LaTeX-based reports:

Slides Report Page (whether in Index or Book format)

Obviously, this doesn't prevent you from creating Slides in a different language, but they would stand out in the report. At this stage, the Slides Report Page doesn't offer a way to select a target language other than the global application default (because there seemed to be little point in doing so) -- but adding such control would be trivial if needed.

Per-project content language

When creating a new project, you will be asked to specify the language in which its contents will be written. The default value for that field will be set to the global application default language. Once the project and its associated default Tiddlers have been created, you will no longer be able to change the value of that field.

Selecting the contents langague will have three effects:

Creating the default Tiddlers for that project in the target language
Providing a default value for the generation of the LaTeX project report on the Projects Report Page
Selecting the language declared in the LaTeX report header and used for the many "fixed" strings that will appear in the project report (section titles, object meta-data headings, etc.)

Here as well, selecting a specific language for your project doesn't prevent you from creating Tiddlers there in any language you may care to write, or linking other object types whose comments were written in a different language. In the end, the only elements that the application can control are the language declared in the generated LaTeX report header and the "fixed" strings I mentioned above. The consistence of data is up to you.

What about HTML-based reports

Those have been ignored at present, as they are considered as part of the application user interface (see above).