Nicolas wrote: > - and I may be wrong there, but can you apply multiple character styles to > the same word
Each character in a word can have a different character style. A character may only have one character style and one paragraph style, though. > Separating language from styles would permit : > - syncing the language with input method (what this user asked) > - displaying the current language so users can actually know what I had a macro that did that.[I don't remember if it just showed the western language, or if it showed the CTL OR CKJ language if either of the latter was being used.] > - and a lot of other cool language-management enhancements > (language-specific word count, highlighting of a specific language when you > want a native speaker to check these parts, etc), which are not possible > right now when language is hidden in styles Those are currently doable, if somebody spends the time writing the appropriate macros. >If you don't create a very simple style that only specifies language, there is bound to be bad juju interaction with formatting. Create a parallel style for every language. This ends up with a number of styles, but it keeps the formatting straight. [Just don't save your document in RTF.] >Also if you go through styles that means users will have to set up what style to apply with what input every time they change documents That is what templates are for. Or just add all 10 000 styles you have created to your default template. Nicolas wrote: > From a pure UI POW what most users expect is a dropdown control with a > language list in the toolbar (like for styles, but strictly limited to > language), and a key accel to quickly switch between the languages Andrew Brown wrote: > This could surely be cludged around with an addin. Your proposed kludge is fairly simple: i) Duplicate the current cell/paragraph/character style. ii) Change the language to the new language; iii) Save new character style. and iv) Hope that the user remembers that they have already created a character style with the language that they want to use. [If they don't their style sheet will be littered with styles that they created as one shot uses. Search/Replace can't search for character styles, to clean that mess up.] Nicolas wrote: > but I don't feel we are making any sense to the styling camp. Essentially, the choices are: i) Include language as a style attribute; ii) Include style as a language attribute; Both approaches have their good points, and their bad points. xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards?
