On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 07:29 -0600, Rod Engelsman wrote:
> G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> 
> > 
> > In what way? Both Jonathon and I tried to point the OP in the right
> > direction and I think we did. What we cannot do is do the work.
> > Furthermore, the list archives have the solution time and time again and
> > it takes little time and effort to do a search of these. 
> > 
> > So you tell us what would have been better.
> 
> Gerry, I don't thing Frank or Jonathon are criticizing your assistance, 
> but rather the way the program is set up vis-a-vis languages and styles.
> 

No jonathon's reply was criticized too. The knowledgebase is an
important tool for users. So much so it is listed at
http://documentation.openoffice.org/thirdparty.html 

> A lot of people seem to have problems with this as evidenced by the 
> number of questions this list sees on the topic.

Well I like the ability to switch languages midstream with a style and
having spellcheck work in my two languages, Canadian French and English.
Very useful. Even Help is not bad on the subject.

> 
> There was a discussion some time back about perhaps separating the 
> language property from the general Styles framework or in some other way 
> making this stuff more intuitive and user-friendly.

Is there an RFE?

> 
> I don't know whether the paradigm needs to be changed or how exactly it 
> should be changed, but I do think it is an unfortunate design choice to 
> make the user select the language in multiple locations in order to 
> affect the desired results.
> 
> Just my $0.02 worth.

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