Sat, 4 Mar 2006 10:52:00 -0400, Richard/g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
писал(а):
Can someone address this. It seems more a user problem but it is an
important one.
Indeed, it's a problem to a user, but this is about development.
I'm from Germany, but write a lot of scientific essays in Swedish.
And my documents are packed with citations in German, English,
Danish, Norwegian, French, while the main text is Swedish.
I have a very similar situation also working with multilingual texts,
although my range of languages is more biased to Slavic.
I now have installed all languages I need for OOo2.0.1 and found
out about two major problems:
first major problem seems to be about missing features of the
language packs in question: The only languages that give you the
possibility to change the spelling language of a paragraph in
context menu are English (USA) and German - not even French got
this feature.
You don't specify your operation system, but I bet, it's Windows.
Because I found this problem (in my case the choice is limited to
English and Russian, I guess, because of my locale settings) in OOo2,
including 2.0.1 and pre-2.0.2 releases, only in Windows. In Linux
(Ubuntu 5.10 with Belarusian locale, OOo 2.0.1 final), this feature
works absolutely fine: in most cases, OOo2 correctly identifies the
language and gives a reasonable suggestion.
So, I do suppose, it's a fault sepcific to the Windows implementation.
Unfortunately, for many reasons I can't switch to Linux.
second major problem seems to be a bug: If your documents main
language is - let's say - German, and you change the language of
the last typed paragraph to English (as this language features
this possibility). Then every following paragraph will be taken as
English, with the effect that every German word is marked as a
mistake.
This is exactly how it's supposed to work. The following paragraph
created by <Enter> inherits the settings from the previous. No bug.
And now you can't change the paragraphs language back to
German, since the context menu doesn't provide that anymore (even
though German in other cases features this possibility).
I envisage three suggestions:
a) switch to Linux, if you don't have any limitation;
b) select a paragraph and press Ctrl+<space> to reset to the style
settings (however, you may loose other formatting);
c) just create separate styles for different languages and choose
accordingly (I strongly recommend that if you work with multilingual
texts really much).
Best regards,
Dmitri Gabinski
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