On Monday 27 February 2006 16:01, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 09:34 -0600, Rod Engelsman wrote: > > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > [snipped] > > > 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. > > I think you have hit the point. Our users have _NOT_ grasped that OOo is > different and expect MSO behaviour without bothering to check the > differences. I do know that the people on both the doc project and > OOoAuthors try to compensate for that but there is a limit especially > when these are not even read by those needing the information.
I think that once someone has grasped that language is a property of the text, it is easy to see how it all fits together. However, it feels like a different sort of property from fonts and size and bold/italic etc. and so it is difficult to find where to make the changes when they are needed. Fonts can change within a word, but it makes little or no sense to change the language within a word, so looking under character formatting is counter-intuitive. I wonder whether it is worth considering adding another entry on the context menu, on the Format menu and possibly elsewhere that just changes the language and operates like the font menu entry. And a second possibility is to move the language identification to the Organizer tab of the Style definition where it will be seen whenever new styles are made. > > As I said before, you can only idiot proof stuff so far before you > whatever you produce is so big it is useless. Nonetheless we try to > consider all levels of expertise especially with styles. > > With answering on users, I have been taking the approach that OPs only > need some direction so they learn a bit rather than the spoon feeding > approach. Others do what they do and the mix is that the list is a good > resource. So the question is how to improve communication with our user > base so that we are not repeating ourselves over and over? I have no > answer. Do you? No, but some help or hints in the dialogs might improve things. Andy pepperdine. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
