> -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathon Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] switching from one language to another > > Kirill wrote: > > > 1. You have to define the styles first. Not only that requires more > > than > > 5 clicks, but some knowledge. This raises more entry > barriers for new > > Setup your default style sheet with a set of styles for each > language you use. When you upgrade OOo, take the default > style sheet with you. > [This is how I got roughly 5K styles in my default style sheet.][It > might be faster if the styles table could be hand edited That way > one could simply do a search/replace for each language that one uses.]
Why not provide simple step-by-step instruction to original poster? > > > 2. Still it should not be necessary - user already > indicated the language by switching keyboard layout. > > I switch to the ZA Keyboard. What language is my document in? > > I switch to a Hebrew keyboard. What language is my document > in? [If you said Ladino, you scored two points. Any other > language would be wrong.] > > The point I am making here is that there is not a one to one > correspondence between keyboard layout and language that is > being written---especially for languages that use the Latin > writing system. My point is that it is doable. And having that feature would not make your life with 5K styles any different, so why argue? > > > 3. Competition already does this for all languages (for 10 years > > already!), we already know how to do this for Asian > languages, so why > > If you look at Issue # 1035, you will see that it was > closed, because whilst it was done for Windows, it could not > be implemented in *nix. I am sure it can be implemented on *nix platforms, at most you would need to modify OS for that. Sun could do this for Solaris and propose the same for Linux community. If Apple would not follow the suit their users will need to "think different". But even if detecting layout switch is impossible on *nix, why users on one platform should suffer from deficiencies of another platform? P.S. 1035 is open now. P.P.S. I just fail to understand why it is difficult to just admit the problem and say "Yes, we can't do this. Yet. Here is how you can help in improving the situation. And before situation improves this is the workaround you should use."? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
