<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - rework document Language Setting into a dedicated dialog (comment 7)" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103036#c16">Comment # 16</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - rework document Language Setting into a dedicated dialog (comment 7)" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103036">bug 103036</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:christos@labs.epiuse.com" title="christos@labs.epiuse.com">christos@labs.epiuse.com</a> <pre>Created <a href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=173543" name="attach_173543" title="Workaround inserting several languages into menus">attachment 173543</a> <a href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=173543&action=edit" title="Workaround inserting several languages into menus">[details]</a> Workaround inserting several languages into menus LANGUAGES PRECEDING More... IN MENUS Choosing the language easily is not only about user-friendly dialogs. The user should be able to choose the languages he or she uses most often from the menu or context menu without having to open additional dialogs. In other words, in most cases the user should not have to resort to More... - regardless of how the dialog following More... works. This is illustrated using the workaround described below. WORKAROUND The attachment consists of blank paragraphs in various languages and a screenshot showing that LibreOffice offers these languages in the following menus while the file is open in edit mode. • Tools > Language > For Selection/For Paragraph/For All Text • (Status bar) Set Language for Paragraph • Context menu shown upon right-clicking a word that the spell checker underlines as misspelled. A line of blanks in the various languages would also work. The workaround consists in pasting the blank paragraphs or the line of blanks into the document being edited. REQUESTED IMPLEMENTATION LibreOffice should a) allow users to set not only the default language but also their other preferred languages and b) offer all these languages in the menus mentioned above, as it does at present when the languages are used in the document. Choosing the language in this way is preferable to going through More... The languages the user specifies in the user settings should be offered in addition to those that Writer menus offer at present: • UI • locale • input method • languages used in the document. When might I need to use More... then? In exceptional cases, for example, when I need a language I rarely ever use in office work and which I have not added to my preferred languages for this reason. NEW LANGUAGE-DEPENDENT STYLES? In bug reports about setting a language, it is often stated that the user should create separate styles for each language and set the desired language by choosing an appropriate style. While this may be suitable in special cases such as the one mentioned in duplicate <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED DUPLICATE - CONFIGURATION VIEWING Menus do not offer enough languages directly for user to set language in document" href="show_bug.cgi?id=134737#c3">bug 134737 comment 3</a> - English text quoting Greek text (which uses a different alphabet and for which, say, a different line spacing may be desired) - in most cases it is inconvenient. It means duplication or even proliferation of styles - more work for users. Users, however, expect office software to allow setting the language easily. As mentioned in <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=103036#c0">comment 0</a>, many users need to work in several languages. Furthermore, the workaround attachment shows that additional languages are sometimes needed to accommodate spellings that depend on the country, for example, UK and US English.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>