https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103036
--- Comment #16 from chris...@labs.epiuse.com ---
Created attachment 173543
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Workaround inserting several languages into menus
LANGUAGES PRECEDING More... IN MENUS
Choosing the language easily is not only about user-friendly dialogs. The user
should be able to choose the languages he or she uses most often from the menu
or context menu without having to open additional dialogs. In other words, in
most cases the user should not have to resort to More... - regardless of how
the dialog following More... works. This is illustrated using the workaround
described below.
WORKAROUND
The attachment consists of blank paragraphs in various languages and a
screenshot showing that LibreOffice offers these languages in the following
menus while the file is open in edit mode.
• Tools > Language > For Selection/For Paragraph/For All Text
• (Status bar) Set Language for Paragraph
• Context menu shown upon right-clicking a word that the spell checker
underlines as misspelled.
A line of blanks in the various languages would also work. The workaround
consists in pasting the blank paragraphs or the line of blanks into the
document being edited.
REQUESTED IMPLEMENTATION
LibreOffice should a) allow users to set not only the default language but also
their other preferred languages and b) offer all these languages in the menus
mentioned above, as it does at present when the languages are used in the
document. Choosing the language in this way is preferable to going through
More...
The languages the user specifies in the user settings should be offered in
addition to those that Writer menus offer at present:
• UI
• locale
• input method
• languages used in the document.
When might I need to use More... then? In exceptional cases, for example, when
I need a language I rarely ever use in office work and which I have not added
to my preferred languages for this reason.
NEW LANGUAGE-DEPENDENT STYLES?
In bug reports about setting a language, it is often stated that the user
should create separate styles for each language and set the desired language by
choosing an appropriate style. While this may be suitable in special cases such
as the one mentioned in duplicate bug 134737 comment 3 - English text quoting
Greek text (which uses a different alphabet and for which, say, a different
line spacing may be desired) - in most cases it is inconvenient. It means
duplication or even proliferation of styles - more work for users. Users,
however, expect office software to allow setting the language easily. As
mentioned in comment 0, many users need to work in several languages.
Furthermore, the workaround attachment shows that additional languages are
sometimes needed to accommodate spellings that depend on the country, for
example, UK and US English.
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