On 28-Sep-98 Andre' Poenitz wrote:
>> On what level should `language' be set?  Should it be set for the whole
>> document, at paragraph level, or at character level?  If it's set on the
>> two latter, how should we provide a mechanism to translate the setting for
>> one language into another (or should we even bother to?).  As J-M pointed
>> out before (months ago -- last time we talked about it), this concerns a
>> number of things; the spell-checker, quotations, language support package
>> in LaTeX/TeX, whatever...
> 
> Imho the 'clean' solution should allow setting the language even for
> single words. A commom situation is citing other papers that are not
> necessarily written in the language used by the current author.
> 
> Even if it is not possible to implement such a feature *right now* we
> should avoid hard coding some partial solution that we might regret in a
> couple of months.
> 

I think we already discussed this and the best solution we came uppon
is to add it as a property to the LyXFont (am I right Asger?)

Greets J�rgen

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