Le Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:57:49 -0500, Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> a écrit :
> > The last time I tested the language dictionary issue, there seemed to > a limit of 3 or 4. I do not have the test document anymore that had > several non-English languages so retesting it would be a problem for > me right now. > > Why talk about StarOffice at this point? There has been so much > modifications to the original code to make it OOo and then LO, you > cannot rely on things working the same as it did back with > StarOffice. I have had font listing issues that came into being when > I went from one version of LO to another one, then it was fixed in a > later version. The first move of Sun when they acquired StarOffice and begun with OpenOffice was to restrict both the multi language capability of StarOffice to 3 languages and its html capability. They called it OpenOffice. This was a little but tricky to install, but it was possible to make it work with more than 3 languages even at that time. They bring back the multi language capabilities one year later or so in OpenOffice, and from that time it have just be working fine with how many languages are available and installed. The html capability is another story. It is only recently, after the move to LibreOffice, that it have finally been updated, which I am very grateful. Dominique > > Your launch coding is something that I have not seen before. So it > might help, as long as you know how to set up all of these users > files. > > The macro idea is fine, if you can write one, which I cannot and the > potential users should not be asked to do. > > Inserting "special characters" for Español [Spanish] and Français > [French] is easy if you have a Unicode font or a good inclusive one > that has the needed characters when viewed with the Insert Special > Character option. I have done that myself for a few things. > > > On 01/27/2014 02:38 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Kracked_P_P---webmaster schrieb: > >> > >> The problem I have with "selling" LO to computer centers, both > >> regular and ones that teach English as a second language, is how > >> many languages can LO support at the same time. > >> > >> I am talking about two ways. 1 - usable dictionaries in the > >> list. 2 - different languages you can change your menus to. > >> > >> The first one is the key for me. > >> > >> You have English, French, Spanish [3 regional versions], Italian, > >> and 4 or 5 other different language dictionaries, installed and > >> enabled, in the Extension Manager. How many of those languages > >> are usable to the user writing documents in English and one or two > >> other languages at a time, then someone else sits down and tried > >> to use his or hers language[s] with English. So how many > >> installed and enabled languages can be used at the same time? I > >> was told there was a very small limited number. > > > > I know no restriction. StarOffice was shipped with about fourteen > > languages and had over twenty Autotext variants. Why do not test it? > > > >> > >> Then the second is not much of a problem for me. Yet, since you > >> can switch between language packs and their help packs, how many > >> can you install and be able to switch back and forth between > >> English and the other non-English languages? > > > > Some as above, I know no restriction. > > > >> > >> Of course, if a center worker needs to switch the menus back to > >> English, or to their default settings, how easy is it if the > >> person/worker does not read/speak the language the menu is > >> currently in? > > > > If the language is bound to the person, you can use different user > > settings and provide each user a prepared link to his special user > > settings. > > For example on Windows > > "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 4\program\soffice.exe" > > -env:UserInstallation=file:///f:/SoftwareLO/user_DE > > > > will launch LibreOffice with the user settings in folder > > f:/SoftwareLO/user_DE. And this different user settings can use > > different languages in UI. You can even run LibreOffice one time > > and have several calls to it with different user settings parallel. > > > > Is it possible to > >> make a script to reset the "preferences" back to a default instead > >> of some manual copy/paste-over some file? > > > > Changing the UI from one language to another for the same user > > requires to restart LibreOffice. > > > >> > >> I do not use any language, other than American English, but others > >> do need to deal with more than one language. I met a lady a > >> number of years ago. She was from my area of the USA, but she > >> worked in Israel as a travel "advisor". She had to use several > >> different packages of MS Office, since she needed to write in > >> English, French, Hebrew, and one other language that I cannot > >> remember the name of. I told her that with the language support > >> of LO she could use it to write in which ever language she needed > >> to do. I do not know if LO can write both English and Hebrew, > >> since one is left to right and the other is right to left [if I > >> remember correctly], but if the document was only in Hebrew, or > >> English, or French, no problems. > > > > It is no problem. For example, if the person likes to use an > > English keyboard layout, you can write a couple of macros to insert > > the special characters of French. You can bind them to short cut > > keys or provide a toolbar, where the icons show the character. So > > they can be used without using the Insert-Special-Character dialog > > and without remembering unicode code point. > > > > If the whole document is in a foreign language, than provide a > > suitable document template, where the language is already set in > > the default template. > > > > For switching inside a document you do not only have the already > > mentioned hard formatting methods, but you can define paragraph > > styles for each needed language and collect them into a document > > templates. > > > > One package can do what she needs to > >> do. We have the language support and the spell checking > >> dictionaries to be added on with the language packs or via the > >> Extension Manager and a lot of various language spell checking and > >> other language aid extensions, sometimes several different ones > >> for the same language. > >> > >> So multi-lingual users, multi-lingual computer center users, etc., > >> etc., need to know what the limits to the number of languages > >> supported at the same time for LO. > > > > I suggest, to test it. All those packages are free, and you can say > > 'I have tested it, it works at least with ...languages.' > > > > Kind regards > > Regina > > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
