On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:04:22 +0100
Mark Bourne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 15:43:50 +0100
> > Mark Bourne <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Paul wrote:
> >>> I think the language settings need an overhaul and consolidation,
> >>> and at least a way to toggle it all off and on in one shot, for
> >>> people that occasionally need to enter some text that should stay
> >>> verbatim and uncorrected.
> >>
> >> You can disable spell checking for selected text, whole paragraphs,
> >> or the whole document: Tools > Language > For [Selection |
> >> Paragraph | all Text] > None.
> >
> > As I mentioned in my mail, that doesn't stop things like initial
> > capitalization.
> >
> >
> >> Paragraph styles can also be set to use a particular language (or
> >> no language) on the font tab of the style settings. So, for
> >> example, a paragraph style for formatting source code or giving
> >> command line examples can be set up to use a monospaced font,
> >> indent the paragraphs, etc... and to have no language so it is not
> >> spell checked.
> >
> > Again, language settings don't seem to affect things like initial
> > capitalization.
>
> Ah, sorry, my misunderstanding; I thought you were referring to the
> spell-check language settings in that last comment.
Well, I was really talking about all of them at once. I don't see why
they are separate. Some languages have different rules for punctuation
than English does. Also, if you want text verbatim, you want *all*
corrections turned off. I understand having individual options in the
configuration settings, but this is really about the need for a simple
method to turn everything off and on at will, preferably something
like the toolbar button that currently exists, but doesn't affect
*everything*, only some stuff.
> > Can one set those options on a per paragraph style
> > basis?
>
> Not that I know of, but it may be nice even if just an option to
> disable all autocorrect features for the paragraph style. Perhaps one
> for a feature request, although it may need to be supported in the
> ODF spec.
>
> Enabling or disabling each feature individually for each style would
> probably be too confusing, and difficult to support across
> applications with different sets of features.
Of course, as you point out below, autocorrect should be on the
"client" side, it should never be saved with the text, such as in a
paragraph style.
> I see the use of disabling all autocorrect for a paragraph; as you
> say, you may want text typed into that type of paragraph to be left
> unaltered for whatever reason.
Yes, just this should be a feature request.
> I don't think paragraph styling should be able to
> specifically ENable features though; that would just lead to
> behaviour unexpected by a user who finds that capital letters are
> being added and words replaced etc., regardless of their own
> autocorrect settings, but only in a particular paragraph of a
> particular document (which perhaps someone else sent to them, or they
> copied from someone else's document).
Yes agreed, these are good points.
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