On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
Hi John!
John P. Baker wrote:
How about providing two menu options?
The first would apply only to those paragraphs whose style does not specify a
hard language attribute.
The second would apply to all paragraphs and would replace any hard language
attribute that may be present.
Sure. That would work.
But will it really be necessary to have two entries that in respect to
'what the resulting language is' are about the same?
I also think that two entries might be better. If there's only one,
then I think it should protect language attributes set by styles.
I must admit that I have not really yet understood the need to reset
language attributes. Because for me language is a very special attribute
unlike bold, color or italic. Once correctly set it should always stay
the same! ...
If I somehow end up with a mix of en-us, en-uk and en-ca (which has
happened to me more than once) but also have a style for French
quotations, I might want to force all of the English to en-ca without
losing my French styles. Or I might have everything as en-ca and want
to change it all to en-uk when I realize that I don't have (or don't
like) the en-ca spelling dictionary.
Is this a convincing use case?
... (That was also the idea of having Format/Default no longer
reset those attributes.) And thus using hard attributes looks like the
natural way of things to me. From my point of view it is a problem (or
better error) that styles have language attributes as well. But that is
something that probably can not be fixed (removed) anymore because of
compatibility with old documents.
Even if having language attributes in styles was a mistake (which I'm
not convinced of), if we're stuck with them then there presumably
needs to be an option of preserving them when changing language 'for
all text'. This also seems to be an argument for having Format/Default
revert to resetting language attributes.
(Sorry my previous message was off base. I was misled by the white
space and didn't scroll down far enough to see Illustration 6. Blush.
I hope this comment isn't quite so far off.)
- Robert
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