Andrius wrote: > is something about Asian languages and CTL, but AFAIK it has nothing > to do with English, Russian, or Lithuanian. If I'm wrong, shed some > light please...
Assigning a language to a keyboard is reliable, if, and only if, there is a one to one correspondence between keyboard, writing system, and language. The default (Microsoft Windows) keyboard is US-English, which can used for writing roughly 100 different languages. [Languages, not dialects.] Russian is written in the Cyrillic writing system. Depending upon how you count, that writing system is used for between 50 and 100 other languages. All of the European keyboards for the Latin writing system can be used for English, and _some_ of the other European languages. For example, the default Dutch keyboard layout can be used for ten other languages --- without considering English, or the 100 or so languages that US-English keyboard can support. If OOo changed default language, based upon keyboard layout, one would still have to change it, to the correct language, at least a certain percentage of time. >> (assigning language to text after typing is not an option). > You may assign it before typing (I'm not mocking, its the best I still don't see what the issue is with changing the language using Stylist. If somebody knows how to change their keyboard layout, then changing language using Stylist should not be an obstacle. > shortcut. Unless you use really many :-) styles in the document it's > not much to do and to remember when typing. Even with a number of styles, changing them is trivial _if_ one has organized one's default template. And given the styles names that are significant. [EG: Hebrew Heading 1, Enochian Title, Akkadian Text, etc.] [FWIW, I do have 500+ base language styles defined for both character and paragraph styles. (Each "base language style" is for a different language.) I don't know how many styles are implemented under each language, though. Nor do I know how many styles I have in my default OOo template. A SWAG would be 5K.] > finished. Bearable, unless you are writing some kind of translation > dictionary. Even with a translation dictionary it is easy. One solution I used was to prefix every word with the language it was in, then run a macro to remove the prefix, and change the language style. > Is voting for a closed issue of any use? Probably not. But then I think that voting on issues is a waste of time anyway. [Several issues with significant (40+) votes were, for all practical purposes, rejected. The classic is the one that was closed "won't fix', despite having more votes than any other issue.] xan jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
