On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:22:00 +0100 Thomas Lange <[email protected]> dijo:
> >Hi all, > >For the details about what language entries get listed can be found in >the following spec >http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/linguistic/Set_Language_Attribute_for_Text.odt > >in the section named 'Dynamic Language List Generation for Context >Menu'. > >>>>> Regardless of which I select, the language options change. >>>>> English is always available, as are "None - Do not check >>>>> spelling" and >... >>>>> Sometimes when I go into Tools > Language I get the option of >>>>> English (always) Spanish (sometimes), Portuguese (sometimes), >>>>> never French, and sometimes two or three of the above. There is >>>>> no consistency. And note that there is no Portuguese dictionary >>>>> installed. >... >>>>> At the moment I am trying to write a document in Spanish and the >>>>> Spanish option does not appear. Closing and restarting OOo makes >>>>> no difference. The only way I can create a new document with the >>>>> Spanish language setting is to open a document that does have >>>>> Spanish language set (done once when Spanish appeared in the >>>>> menu), save under a new name, and delete all the text. >... >>>>> Something is seriously messed up with the language settings. Does >>>>> anyone have any idea what to look for? > >There is nothing messed up. From your description above it still looks >like everything works as designed. > >For the details about what language entries get listed those can be >found in the following spec >http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/linguistic/Set_Language_Attribute_for_Text.odt > >in the section named 'Dynamic Language List Generation for Context >Menu'. > >The list of languages displayed is populated considereing various OOo >user settings, the text at the cursor position (i.e. language guessing, >which can even suggest languages that are not installed), the languages >already used in the document, and for Windows the keyboard language as >well. Please note that the shorter a text is the more likely it is for >language guessing to fail an suggest seemingly arbitrary languages. > >Aside from that it is as has already been said: to create a document in >a specific language either go to 'Tools>Options>Language >Settings>Languages' or use the 'For all text' entry from >Settings>'Tools>Languages'. Thank you. Now I understand at least why Portuguese kept appearing in the list under Tools > Language > For All Text, even though I have no Portuguese dictionaries installed. Apparently it is "language guessing," and it guesses regardless of whether you have a dictionary installed for the language it is guessing. I just tried it and you can even set the entire document to a language without ever installing a dictionary for that language. Not sure what the purpose would be, though. However, I still can't believe it takes six mouse clicks and seven or eight more in scrolling to set the language of a new document to Spanish. That is, unless I set the default for new documents to Spanish, and then it will take six mouse clicks and seven or eight more in scrolling to set a new document to English. I suppose I am supposed to install a keyboard for every language I write in, as Windows is designed to expect. But I use Linux, where the compose key makes extra keyboards pretty much unnecessary. So without installing a Spanish keyboard OOo won't pick up Spanish and display it as an option in Tools > Language > For All Text. I also tried experimenting with the language guessing. I opened a new document in the default (English), then typed a couple sentences in Spanish. Tools > Language > For All Text then offered me English, Portuguese, Italian and Catalán, but no Spanish. I guess OOo isn't very good at guessing. I suppose I could macro all the mouse clicks, but it seems that the user interface wasn't designed with ease of use in mind. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
