Hi, On 23.04.2011 11:14, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 22/04/2011 Marco A.G.Pinto wrote: >> I would like to know if OOo could be improved in order to accept more >> than one kind of dictionary per language. > > You can surely do it with two separate extensions, by letting the user > choose which one to install. But you probably wanted something more > configurable, and possibly the ability to use the two styles of > Portuguese in the same document. I don't know if this is feasible > cleanly; Theoretically it could be done. But for practical reasons it can't. The main reasons is that probably that internal each language has a numerical ID which happens to be the same as in MS Word (for the languages MS knows). If we were to introduce new IDs they can not properly be exported the same way and at import one would need to set a default (old or new spelling) which of course is not always right. Also it would break round-trip. I'm quite confident that there is no word processor that even tries to handle this problem. > I've seen hacks around, like encoding two alternative Italian > dictionaries as "Italian - Italy" and "Italian - Switzerland", but I > consider it a horrible solution. Sure it is a horrible work-around but at least it works for those that really have need for this. Regards, Thomas -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
