[users] Your help please

2005-05-12 Thread David Garson
It is very urgent and your help would be very much appreciated! I am a travel writer, writing my articles in English (GreatBritain). However, some of my articles have to be "americanised" and however much I try to change the language under Extra-Options-Languages etc. it always slips back to Gre

Re: [users] Your help please

2005-05-12 Thread Dominic Morris
Counter intuitive, I know, but text language is set via Format / Character ... David Garson wrote: It is very urgent and your help would be very much appreciated! I am a travel writer, writing my articles in English (GreatBritain). However, some of my articles have to be "americanised" and howev

Re: [users] Your help please

2005-05-12 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 18:16 +, David Garson wrote: > It is very urgent and your help would be very much appreciated! > > I am a travel writer, writing my articles in English (GreatBritain). However, > some of my articles have to be "americanised" and however much I try to > change the langua

Re: [users] Your help please

2005-05-12 Thread Dominic Morris
Hi, I'm a budding writer myself and I find your template suggestion intriguing. When (if ever!) I have something presentable I want to be able to shop essentially the same manuscript to potential buyers in Canada, the US and the UK. How would the templates help in this scenario? If I were to cu

Re: [users] Your help please

2005-05-12 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 16:11 -0400, Dominic Morris wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a budding writer myself and I find your template suggestion > intriguing. When (if ever!) I have something presentable I want to be > able to shop essentially the same manuscript to potential buyers in > Canada, the US and t

Re: [users] Your help please

2005-05-12 Thread Dan Lewis
Post in the middle On Thursday 12 May 2005 03:11 pm, Dominic Morris wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a budding writer myself and I find your template suggestion > intriguing. When (if ever!) I have something presentable I want to be > able to shop essentially the same manuscript to potential buyers in > Canad

Re: [users] Your help please

2005-05-12 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 15:35 -0400, Dominic Morris wrote: > Counter intuitive, I know, but text language is set via Format / > Character ... If you are working with specific languages, it is recommended that you have a separate template for each one. This can be done by setting the language via

Re: [users] Your help please

2005-05-12 Thread Dominic Morris
Thanks, Jonathan. This seems all well and good if document A is for an American (US) audience, document B is for a British audience, and document C is for a Canadian audience. What about a single document with an audience in all three countries? A travel article to be published in both a US and

Re: [users] Your help please

2005-05-12 Thread Dominic Morris
As you suggested, I tried and you are quite right - the default settings of the target document over-rode the default formatting of text pasted from the source document. The template approach worked fine technically but for this particular situation it seems cumbersome. For example, in addition

Re: [users] Your help please

2005-05-12 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 21:24 -0400, Dominic Morris wrote: > Thanks, Jonathan. > > This seems all well and good if document A is for an American (US) > audience, document B is for a British audience, and document C is for a > Canadian audience. What about a single document with an audience in all

Re: [users] Your help please

2005-05-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 12 May 2005 19:16, + David Garson wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > It is very urgent and your help would be very much appreciated! > > I am a travel writer, writing my articles in English (GreatBritain). > However, some of my articles have to be "americanised" and howev