A bit off topic, since I’m not going to address the translation of the manual into Spanish, but …
… I am going to step near this landmine-like topic:
First let me say that I have only used the English UI of Dorico. It’s not localized for my other language, Lithuanian, and if it were, I would probably find it time consuming and cumbersome since I have to look for help in the manual and online very frequently, and usually the only thorough sources of information are in English.
But … I have often thought this in regard to software localization: it would be amazingly helpful if there were a way to show two languages in the UI, or toggle between two user-determined languages with the press of one key command.
(Usually changing the UI language is a select-the-new-language-and-restart-the-program process, so one can’t switch back and forth quickly. I see from this link that Dorico allows one to change the UI language for the current project and all future ones without a restart. That’s good. But it seems to me that the UI should be project-agnostic since projects could be transferred between users with different language preferences.
What I dream of is actually bi-lingual user interfaces, so that the user can have one language showing in a regular-sized font while the other is in a tiny font under the other. And a toggle key to switch them around… This would provide heretofore unheard of convenience. (I know there are many reasons why developers would think this proposal is a nightmare or an impossibility. I admit it would be a paradigm shift, but I think a very welcome one for users whose first language is not English – an ever-growing part of the market.)
I have found using software whose UI was translated from English to be a nightmare partly because of what I’d call strange terminology choices, but mostly because when you want help – but know it’s going to come only/mostly in English – you waste time figuring out the terminology in order to look for help.
Anyway, I can sympathize with both the users and the developers in this.
Eric
P.S. I forgot that I had commented on the idea of bi-lingual UIs earlier (link to forum post).