Hi Robert,

Robert Funnell wrote:

> 
> If I somehow end up with a mix of en-us, en-uk and en-ca (which has 
> happened to me more than once) but also have a style for French 
> quotations, I might want to force all of the English to en-ca without 
> losing my French styles. Or I might have everything as en-ca and want 
> to change it all to en-uk when I realize that I don't have (or don't 
> like) the en-ca spelling dictionary.
> 
> Is this a convincing use case?

Since it is said by a user I think it is. ;-)


>> ... (That was also the idea of having Format/Default no longer
>> reset those attributes.) And thus using hard attributes looks like the
>> natural way of things to me. From my point of view it is a problem (or
>> better error) that styles have language attributes as well. But that is
>> something that probably can not be fixed (removed) anymore because of
>> compatibility with old documents.
> 
> Even if having language attributes in styles was a mistake (which I'm 
> not convinced of), if we're stuck with them then there presumably 
> needs to be an option of preserving them when changing language 'for 
> all text'. This also seems to be an argument for having Format/Default 
> revert to resetting language attributes.
> 
> (Sorry my previous message was off base. I was misled by the white 
> space and didn't scroll down far enough to see Illustration 6. Blush. 
> I hope this comment isn't quite so far off.)
> 
> - Robert

Nope. Your comments are welcome. Thanks!

Thomas


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