G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
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.
The usefulness of this ability is not in question. The implementation,
however, may have some room for improvement.
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. Honestly, it's not an issue for me since I only ever use
one language anyway, and being US English I haven't ever had to muck
about to get it to work properly.
All I'm saying is that if "the list archives have the solution time and
time again", then that to me is prima facie evidence that the UI could
use some improvement.
To my way of thinking, a style is something that should change the
appearance of the text in some way. And, in fact, that's what very
nearly every option, check box, and radio button in a styles dialog
accomplishes. The Language, on the other hand, assuming it doesn't
require a different symbol set, is a different kind of property -- a
mostly invisible property. Depending on the precise choice of words in a
passage it can be impossible to tell by visual inspection whether it is
written in US or UK English (or Canadian, or Australian, etc.).
What's happening over and over is that people will find a language
setting somewhere, like in the Spellcheck dialog and then be mystified
as to why it doesn't work. Because intuitively, if you tell the thing to
check the document using UK English, then that's what it should do.
I'll agree with you that once you understand how it works, it's fairly
easy to deal with. I just don't think that a style is where folks tend
to look for that property.
--
Rod
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