Mathias Bauer wrote: > KAMI wrote: > >> KAMI írta: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> Is it possible to create multilanguage documents with OOo or the ODF >>> itself make it possioble. I thinking about a document has several >>> languages in one file. The apperance of documents depend on the >>> language of UI for example. Also the meta informations such as author, >>> title are depending on UI language. Is it possible somehow? ODF >>> standard makes possibility of multi lang doc this way? >>> >> Any idea here? >> > > Such thing does not exist and this feature is not implemented. ODF does > not define any multi language support of that kind. > > In case you wanted to implement language dependent metadata: > (basically ;-) ) no problem using custom properties and an own UI to > treat them (extension). > > Treating language dependent text content is harder. In Writer it could > be done on section or paragraph level by writing an extension that makes > sections or paragraphs visible or invisible depending on the selected > language. Besides that there is only hidden text to do some comparable > on "lower" level but this is restricted to "simple" text as hidden text > is a text field that does not allow to have different attributes applied > to text in it. > FWIW: MS Word has been having that ability for quite a few versions now. There one would use the "Language" tab on styles to define what language it is used for (on that dialog one is able to turn off grammar- and spell-checking). Having that feature available it gets used around here whenever there are mixed-language texts.
---rony
