On Saturday August 25 2007 08:06 am, Stan Goodman wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
> Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:34:20 +0100
>
> > At 14:45 25/08/2007 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > >[...]
> > >But this is still not using the CTL facility of OOo. The "Enabled for
> > > CTL: is still greyed out (and checked), and I have not been able to
> > > find a way to switch between "Western" and CTL languages. It might
> > > help me if I knew what action _should_ toggle between the two. Since
> > > only two languages are involved, I would have expected the same
> > > behavior as that used in other OSes, namely Right<Alt+Shift> goes to
> > > CTL and Left<Alt+Shift> goes to "Western". [...]
> >
> > Perhaps you missed the message I sent you privately when you first
> > asked this.
>
> I saw the message, and apologize for not reponding. The suggestion
> produced no result, and at about the same time I also discovered that
> the inability to write Hebrew and Russian was not limited to OOo alone.
> That was because I had not properly installed the needed keyboards,
> which has now been done. I had hoped at the time that the keyboard
> matter would also solve the CTL problem.
>
> > According to the help text, you change the text writing direction by
> > pressing: o Ctrl+Shift+D or Ctrl+Right Shift Key - switch to
> > right-to-left text entry o Ctrl+Shift+A or Ctrl+Left Shift Key -
> > switch to left-to-right text entry
>
> These key combinations do indeed (and did before) switch the writing
> alignment from side to side, but do nothing about the characterset that
> appears -- they do not change the language. That, as I have said, is
> dependent only upon the setting of the language applet, and has nothing
> to do with CTL or other setting within OOo.
>
> > Alternatively, there are also Left-To-Right and Right-To-Left buttons
> > that appear on the Formatting toolbar when CTL is enabled.
>
> Whether CTL is enabled or not is a mystery. The "Enable CTL" checkbox is
> both greyed out and checked; I am not clear about what that is meant to
> tell me.
>
> > Is this not what you need? Is it, perhaps, OS-dependent?
> >
> > I trust this helps.
> >
> > Brian Barker
What about using styles found in the Styles and Formatting window?
(F11) Create and use a different style for each language you use. You can
set a different language in each style and select any other changes such
as font that you want to use as well. Use paragraph styles for paragraphs
of a particular language. For mixed language paragraphs, use character
styles. If you have the dictionaries for the languages you are using, you
can then spellcheck the entire document at the same time.
Dan
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