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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Mon Sep 28 08:33:16 +0000 2009 ------- This comment gives more background on the issue. The Classical / reformed orthography problem is a hot topic for many users. The reform is optional, except for some users, working in some public administrations, where it is mandatory. The exact situation is country specific. However, there is no place where it is globally mandatory, nor forbidden. On a personal level, some people are vehemently against the reform, other are hotly in favor, and many people don't really care or even know, as long as their spell-checker is working coherently. The current default behavior is to provide check-spelling for both accepted orthography, which many see as a "worst of both worlds" approach. This approach tends to generate documents with incoherent orthography, both orthographies being valid at once, ie unprofessional documents. (For English speakers, that would be as if both US and UK orthographies were valid at once and you could find in the same document both “color” and “colour” being accepted as valid.) Users can desinstall the default dictionary-extension which provides both orthography as one and install the individual classical/reformed dictionary-extension. However, only an administrator can desinstall or deactivate the default extension, which is a problem. This also requires that the user find that the classical/reformed orthography choice is tied to extensions, which isn't intuitive at all. Switching from one orthography to the other requires restarting OOo and the Quickstarter. This is a major annoyance. Editing documents in both orthographies is impossible, as the orthography choice is application-wide and not per document. The orthography the document is written in isn't saved in the document, so an user needs to open the document and, if the document is written in the other orthography, the user must change extensions (deactivate one, activate the other) and restart OOo and the Quuickstarter. It is impossible to have working check-spelling in a document which contains texts in both orthographies, eg a reformed text with quotes from a classical one. It is very important for the French-speaking users to be able to specify which orthography to use as variants of languages (which they are). [It would be even better to be able to choose which variant to use without loosing the ability to choose a regional variant, but we understand it isn’t possible in OOo for the time being.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
