On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:06:07PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi! I created a document in OpenOffice:
http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/homesteading/
The document's main language is Hebrew, but I started writing it with an English main language. As a result, the headings, endnotes and in the HTML some of the bullets, are displayed left-aligned. How do I change the main language of this specific document to Hebrew?
I'm using OpenOffice 1.1 RC.
(someone recommended me to use Tools -> Options -> "Language Settings" but this will set the application-wide defaults, which I don't want to.
1. Select all the text.
2. Right click and choose "Edit Paragraph Style..."
3. In the "Alignment" tab, change the "Text direction" property to "Right to left".
4. Click "OK.
5. Rejoice.
Somehow I was expecting a document-wide property. I believe Shlomi is interested here in the HTML produced from the document. Such methods produce ugly HTML: each paragraph has its oown specific "visual" formatting. Very unlike the spirit of HTML. Not to mention that the HTML gets inflated.
And you get a property-wide base direction of LTR that is overriden on each paragraph. Take a look at the bullets, where it accidentally wasn't overriden.
In other words: All that is needed is a way to tell OpenOffice to change the BODY tag a bit. Not to further inflate the produced html.
I agree that to set the direction of each paragraph seperatly in HTML is very ugly. However, the question Shlomi present to us was how to override the default paragraph direction in a *OpenOffice* document and this is what I provided. If one wants to produce proper HTML one is advised to write HTML and not a use a WSIWYG editor.
Moreover, I also agree that a OpenOffice is missing the property of a *document* default paragraph direction, as opposed to the existing general default paragpraph direction but AFAIK one does not currently exists.
Cheers, Gilad
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