Hi all, I enabled CTL/Asian support some time ago and it doesn't bother me performance-wise. However, the separate font entries in the Paragraph Style dialogue do bother me quite a bit. I also don't really see the use for them because (at least in the case of the CTL default) they lump very different scripts together – most fonts aren't optimised for both (e. g.) Arabic and Indic scripts. Thus, if we think this principle through, we would end up with different pickers for every language – which hopefully no one wants. I would very much like to only ever see one default font, not three.
(It also adds two more tabs, Asian Typography and Asian Layout to the same dialogue. It should be simple to add the three options in Asian Typography as a button on the Font tab. Asian Layout would seem to topically fit into the Position tab – which is already crammed though, so that Tab would likely need to stay.) Then, the Asian option adds the entries Hangul/Hanja Conversion and Chinese Translation to the Tools→Language menu. These, don't bother me really. The other UI thing is that it adds three more pages to the options itself. The Searching in Japanese page initially comes up with all options enabled – thus, it might make sense to think about whether people really need such granular control over these options or if we could maybe make it all a single option (I am not Japanese, obviously, so I am guessing wildly here). [NB: all the options are also available in Find & Replace next to the tick box "Sounds like".] Keeping most of the options for Asian Layout seems like a good idea to me, but the Beginning and End Character settings, we can probably also conclude the right thing to do from the default language setting, no? As for the options under Conmplex Text Layout: * Sequence Checking sounds like an option that's useful to keep; * I am not sure about Cursor Movement, but I've tried the options and "visual" seems to behave rather buggy – if it weren't it would likely be the best option * the "Digits" option: it could find a new home in the Languages tab or it could be removed completely, with it being set to "Context" always This way, we could probably compress all the relevant options to a single additional options page (instead of three) – which would lower the UI impact immediately. Conclusion: if we could adapt the UI as outlined, it would be great if we could always enable CJK/CTL support. Regards, Astron. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice