https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151290
--- Comment #21 from Regina Henschel <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #0) > When I write a document, I often use character styles such as "Emphasis", > "Internet Link". "Quotation" Naturally, I want to use these styles for text > in different languages - and not define separate styles named "Arabic > Emphasis", "Hebrew Emphasis", "N'Ko emphasis" etc. That is possible. Currently the character styles "Emphasis", "Internet Link" and "Quotation" do not contain any language information. So currently this styles use if exists the language setting of a parent character style or of a surrounding character style, and otherwise the language of the surrounding paragraph. Please have a look in tab General of 'Edit Style'. There you can see, what is actually contained in the style. Do not get confused with the theoretically possible settings in the other tabs. Currently the language is only included in the character style, when you change the language in the tab "Font". Removing a language is cumbersome. You first need to apply "reset to parent" to the "Font" tab. Close and reopen dialog. And then set the other previously contained settings again. Verify the settings in tab "General". Request to get a more direct way to control the actually contained settings is in bug 128960. It might help users, when we introduce a new tab "Language" and move the fields from tab "Font" to the new tab "Language". > > However, as Regina Henschel tells me, it is currently the case that the > choice of language is a feature of a character style (or at least - the > choice of a single language in each language group). The language setting is not mandatory for a character style. > > That does also not make sense semantically: The languages I use are part of > the content, not the style. I can take Hebrew text and change its "style" - > but it will not become Arabic text. Think it this way: You have a portion of text and the character style contains all what is special with this portion of text. This can be font color, borders, position, and language as well. > > So, this should change. The language (and the language group) of a stretch > of text must be _removed_ from the character style (explicit or > default-style in a paragraph style). What markup do you suggest instead for the file? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
