On 28/02/2006, at 4:10 AM, Andy Pepperdine wrote:
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:
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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.
This would simply add a paragraph style with the specified langauge.
I think
it would be quite easy to do, but again, would people see the use of
it when
they only use one language predominantly.
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.
This is just cosmetic - it does not really change the real problem
which is
that people do not realise that language settings for documents are
within
the styles.
Regards
Jonathon
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