OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released [LWN.net]

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 22, 2005 14:02 UTC (Thu) by ahz (guest, #27372)
In reply to: OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released by philips
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

>Shortly: how do you tell OOo2 that particular piece
>of text is written in particular language?

1. Highligh text
2. Format->Character

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OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 22, 2005 15:29 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

That's a totally bizarre placement for the language setting. It must have come from pre-Unicode days, when different languages used different fonts. But for a modern user, what has language to do with format and characters?

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 22, 2005 20:27 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

It's a direct copy, I believe of MS Office. Curiously enough, I discovered that KWord has the
function in the same place. It's logical from a programmer's point of view, because character
properties are valid for runs of characters, just like languages.

That doesn't mean that we're not trying to get it out of the font properties dialog in KWord, and
perhaps even actually implement the function.

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 22, 2005 21:42 UTC (Thu) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

But where should this go? Took me a while to find it out myself in OOo, but after that I noticed that I had no idea where to look for anyway. Also, I wouldn't know another place because language can change every other word, so it's really something to define at character level.

Curious where it will go in KWord

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 23, 2005 17:06 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Language is a property of text, but not directly related to visual format. Yet it should be possible to make language a part of style, e.g. to force words in a specific language to look a certain way.

Since styles and text properties are located under Format, it would be logical to put Language there, but as a separate item, not as part of Character, Paraghaph, Page or anything like that.

Alternatively, Tools->Language->Set Language could be used to put language settings and language actions together.

In the style editor, Language should be a separate tab.