diff --git a/js/locale.js b/js/locale.js
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+t('documents', "Loading");
+t('documents', "Unknown Author");
+t('documents', "Loading");
+t('documents', "Unknown Author");
+t('documents', "Members");
+t('documents', "Invite Members");
+t('documents', 'Open');
+t('documents', 'Save');
+t('documents', "Paragraph...");
+t('documents', 'Format');
+t('documents', 'Close');
+t('documents', "Insert Image");
+t('documents', "Default Style");
+t('documents', 'Undo');
+t('documents', 'Redo');
+t('documents', "Paragraph Styles");
+t('documents', "Clone this Style");
+t('documents', "New Name:");
+t('documents', "Create");
+t('documents', "Clone");
+t('documents', "Delete");
+t('documents', "OK");
+t('documents', "Cancel");
+t('documents', 'Annotate');
+t('documents', "Font Effects");
+t('documents', "Alignment");
+t('documents', 'Bold');
+t('documents', 'Italic');
+t('documents', 'Underline');
+t('documents', 'Strikethrough');
+t('documents', 'Size');
+t('documents', 'Align Left');
+t('documents', 'Center');
+t('documents', 'Align Right');
+t('documents', 'Justify');
+t('documents', 'Decrease Indent');
+t('documents', 'Increase Indent');
+t('documents', "Style");
+t('documents', "Bold");
+t('documents', "Italic");
+t('documents', "Underline");
+t('documents', "Font");
+t('documents', "Family");
+t('documents', "Size");
+t('documents', "Color");
+t('documents', "Text");
+t('documents', "Background");
+t('documents', "Options");
+t('documents', "Left");
+t('documents', "Center");
+t('documents', "Right");
+t('documents', "Justified");
+t('documents', "Spacing");
+t('documents', "Top");
+t('documents', "Left");
+t('documents', "Right");
+t('documents', "Bottom");
diff --git a/src/locale.sh b/src/locale.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+#extracts strings for translation
+JS_PATH=../js/
+WEBODF_PATH=../js/3rdparty/webodf/
+
+grep -ohEr "tr\([\"|'][^\"|']*[\"|']\)" ${WEBODF_PATH} | sed -e "s/^tr(/t('documents',\ /" -e "s/\$/;/" > ${JS_PATH}locale.js
+
+grep -ohEr "text-i18n=[\"|'][^\"|']*[\"|']" ${WEBODF_PATH} | sed -e "s/^text-i18n=/t('documents',\ /" -e "s/\$/);/" >> ${JS_PATH}locale.js
+