** Reply to message from Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:49:14 -0500
> 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 If somebody tells me that CTL is unsupported or broken in Linux (something I do not expect to happen), then I will begin to devise workarounds such as you suggest. In the meantime, my working hypothesis is that I have overlooked something or screwed something up, and I would like to get to the bottom of whatever it is. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
