From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon May 27 2002 - 08:53:48 EDT
> > However, as of
> > the moment, there is no GUI for setting them, and
> > anyone should
> > free to design some dialogue for this; we should at
> > least be able to
> > set the default language ("lang") and dominant
There is an outstanding bug requesting exactly this addition to the user
interface, or at least i think that is what he wanted the description got
a bit confusing. i dont know the number offhand.
> > direction ("dom-dir")
> > properties for now.
>
> I'm wondering if these should be edited in the same
> place as the document metadata, maybe on another page
> in the same dialog?
when in doubt, look at "the defacto standard" and do it differently if you
are sure your idea is better.
word 97 does not have this in the properties menu.
word has an extra button in the Language Dialog. As well as being able to
mark the language of the selected text you can click a button marked
default that changes the default lanuage of the document and the default
langague of the normal.dot
(Openoffice.org does not seem to have a langauge option, the relevant
options seem to be buried somewhere under spelling, it is quite
disconcerting i did not realise how accustomed to msword i really was.)
so what is my point? i have no idea. i suppose you could put these
options in the properties dialog, but just take a look at what other word
processors do before you decide. It does make a lot of sense to group the
language options together.
Later
Alan
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