Multiple text versions or languages displayed on one slide - split screen (horizontal, vertical, or intermingled)
We are a bilingual (English and Spanish) church.
It would be extremely helpful to be able to display multiple languages on Song, Bible, Content, and Announcement screens.
Bible screens could give the option of displaying a parallel text so we could pull up and English version and Spanish version side by side or top and bottom (split-screen horizontal or vertical). This is a common feature in most Bible software and apps now and I think it would be a great addition to proclaim (not just for bilingual).
For songs this might be a little more complicated but possibly two different text input windows and then the option of displaying the slides either split top/bottom or intermingled (but being able to set a different font or color for the different text/language). The other complication is that we flip back and forth between which language is being sang so I invert the text accordingly so that the one in black and first is the language being sang. I have used a work around of a content slide but it takes a lot of work to intermingle the text and then highlight every other line. See attached screen captures.
In some cases it would be nice to have an auto-translate feature but most auto-translates I have used require the ability to edit. For example, if I had an announcement screen and clicked to show split text and had the option of displaying the same text in a different language.
I believe there are many churches that would benefit from this capability as I came across many others searching for the same thing before I decided to go with proclaim anyways and created this workaround.
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colin baguley commented
We would be interested in producing song lyrics in English and also Farsi ( ie Arabic script)
At present we are doing this manually. -
Giovanni Otero commented
We are in desperate need for this feature as well.
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Melvin Gonzalez commented
Pro Presenter has this feature. Would love to see it here as well.
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Anonymous commented
This is a much needed and critical feature that Proclaim is missing. I cannot wait for this feature to be developed as this is a deal-breaker for also for our church moving from SSP.
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Anonymous commented
This feature is important and essential to our church. This is a deal breaker for us moving from SSP to Proclaim.
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Sam Horowitz commented
We're a school training worship leaders and worship pastors. Multilingual support of songs is non-negotiable ... even Powerpoint has reasonable workarounds!
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Joshua Mateine commented
That’s a great idea! We are a bilingual church as well and run into the same difficulty.
Joshua Mateine
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Anonymous commented
multi-language, dual-language, bilingual, multi-lingual
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Anonymous commented
I have screen captures of my workaround but I can't see an option to attach them here so you can see them in the Logos forum:
https://community.logos.com/forums/p/114887/760029.aspx#760029