Hi Jonathon: I agree with almost everything you say, but am not sure about "More languages use the Latin Writing System, than any other writing system. By that criteria, it is normal." First, I wasn't really intending to use the word "normal" in that context; it was more intended to reflect "the assumed default" or something similar. Latin/English needs to be present, of course, in any computer system for obvious reasons. But wouldn't the phrase "more languages" be more suitably replaced by "more people?" Not disagreeing with you - just food for thought. In any case, I guess my real point was that oodles (technical term) of folks don't use Latin script in their day-to-day writings and any hurdles they need to jump through annoy me just from an architectural/design point. I realize that not everyone mixes scripts in the same document, but it just seems to me that if I can do that in GEdit or Kate with no yelling and screaming, I feel annoyed when Writer (and most other word processors) seems to get in the way.
And you are certainly correct that I should have used the term "Unicode Range." From my own (admittedly very brief) exposure to Vietnamese, I ended up with the impression that use of ideographs pretty much died a few centuries ago - being replaced by the awful quốc ngữ quasi-Latin script (Cyril and Methodius did a much better job adapting Greek script to serve or their Russian missionary work - a script now called Cyrllic - one can only assume Methodius wasn't the main driving force). I am a big believer in styles, but the idea of having separate styles for separate attributes is fine, having to multiply that number by the number of scripts in use within a document just smacks of Rube Goldberg - there's got to be a better way. I'm just sorry I'm old enough that I might never see such a solution. I guess that's why I simply don't like the whole CTL idea. Your own example of the five systems for Japanese seems to me to acknowledge at least the idea that we're still seeking the common denominator. But, keep up your efforts ... Frank -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/A-toolbar-option-that-makes-it-easier-to-type-using-unicode-tp4187537p4188146.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
