Christian Lohmaier wrote: > Hi *, > > On Nov 11, 2007 3:54 AM, jonathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Rony wrote: >> >> >>> 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). >>> >> How is that different from implementing language specific styles in OOo? >> > > Please don't confuse KAMI's feature-request with the stuff described > in this excerpt. > Did not realize that!
> Of course you can already assign different languages to different parts of > your document > and that language will be used for spell-checking, hyphenation and will > affect things like > autocorrect/autoformat (replacement of typographic quotes for example) > Tsk, thank you for pointing that out. Being somewhat accustomed to MS Word, I looked into the wrong area in OOo to find that (just found it to be a drop-down field on the "Character"- resp. "Font"-dialog)! > - if you choose the language "none", no spell-checking, hyphenation is > performed. > Well, that would be *quite* different from being able to assign a specific language (important, to be able to identify/extract text in a certain language) and determine that that should not be spell-checked, hyphenized or Grammar checked. ---rony
