The template approach worked fine technically but for this particular situation it seems cumbersome. For example, in addition to the standard document template I also have a specific manuscript template (relatively short lines, double spaced, fixed width font, specific formatting (header / footer fields, eg.)) and yet another for letters. Getting regional settings down for editors and publishers is critical - a US editor does not want to see 'neighbour' and his/her UK counterpart would be out of sorts with 'realize' for 'realise'. Ergo not only would I need 3 standard templates, I would need 3 manuscript templates and 3 cover letter templates and Lord only knows what else. Don't forget we're talking about 3 audiences for 1 document.
Practically speaking it does seem easier to work from a single set of 3 templates, then Select All / Format - Character - Language x / Spell Check / Save As / Repeat for the next customer.
Is there some other advantage to the Templates that I'm unaware of?
Thanks, Dom
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
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 the UK. How would the templates help in this scenario? If I were to cut and paste text from a Canadian English document to a US or UK language template, wouldn't the paste action include the character formatting and wouldn't this override the template default?
Thanks, Dom
TO be honest I have not done this myself. No reason to and laziness. IIRC, the existing document settings take precedence in a paste. My advice, try and let us know.
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 18:16 +0000, 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 language under Extra-Options-Languages etc. it always slips back to Great Britain English.
Any idea, what to do?
David,
I would like to suggest that you create templates for the languages in which you work. Set the language for each including setting the language via Format > Character and save as template, say mydoc_us_en. For more information on this, please see http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo1.x.x/user_guide.pdf . I think the section is near page 30.
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