On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:45:36PM +0000, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > 2018-01-20 23:39 GMT+01:00 Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>: > > > I have a paper where I set the language to "English (USA)". I am not > > normally so patriotic, but I do this to get the conventional quoting > > used in USA journals where punctuation in the references are inside the > > quotation marks, e.g., <<"This is a Title.">> instead of <<"This is a > > Title".>>. I could instead set the language of Biblatex directly so the > > following issue would not matter, but I am stubborn. > > > > Most of my other .lyx files use the language "English", and so whenever > > I paste from one of those .lyx files into my "English (USA)" .lyx file, > > the pasted text is (correctly) marked with a blue line because it is a > > different language, "English". I then just need to select the text I > > just pasted in and change it from "English" to "English (USA)." I do > > this maneuver enough times that I find it annoying. > > > > Does anyone else run into this annoyance, e.g., with other forms of > > English, French, German, etc? If not, then I don't think we should > > change anything. > > > > If others do find this annoying, perhaps we can think of an improvement. > > The ideal behavior for me would be that whenever I paste text that is in > > language "mylanguage (x)" into a document that has language "mylanguage > > (y)" and no other language, the text would be pasted as > > "mylanguage (y)". However, thinking about what the LyX behavior should > > be, I don't know what to suggest. On the one hand, I don't think we > > should change the default behavior since it is correct to treat > > "mylanguage (x)" and "mylanguage (y)" as different languages. > > On the other, I don't think this is a big enough issue that we should > > have a preference for it. So I don't know what to suggest. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > This remembered me of this ticket > > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9199
Ah that one must be annoying. Another one that is related is when copying a formula and pasting into text: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2596 > LyX tends to do some language assumptions when pasting something ;) Indeed, and it always assumes English it seems. Maybe we should at least have LyX choose a language at random. That might be fun :) Scott
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