I am checking Softmaker Office as a replacement for ms office in Linux.
My work requires multilingual documents (technical reports etc.) which contain different language even in the same sentence. In Linux, the spellcheck language does not automatically change, when I change keyboard language/layout (as it happens in wins). This makes multilingual documents a nightmare, as I will have to set language word-by-word.
Tha same happens in Libreoffice, but I managed to resolve this, using a macro (I use the same keystroke for keyboard layout change, and for spellchecker language definition). But in Softmaker office for linux, macros are not supported. Is there an alternative solution or workaround?
Thanks.
Multilingual documents
Re: Multilingual documents
Dear Dozius,
Regrettably I am not capable of helping you, but, since you have yet to receive any help, perhaps I can point you in the direction of how you can help yourself. Then again, someone from SoftMaker will likely reply eventually, so feel free to ignore this and just remain patient.
In TextMaker, individual characters are associated with a language, either the "default" language or a specified language. (I don't think (?) PlanMaker has the same feature, and I don't know/care if Presentation does.
Presumably, the same mechanisms that you use to configure character and paragraph styles typographically could be used to specify the intended languages of paragraph and character styles. Note that changing a character or character style language changes the language metadata applied; it does not affect the text -- TextMaker doesn't magically translate text. I do not know if TextMaker's spell checker is clever enough to check the text in a document in multiple languages, or in what other ways specifying a language would have practical utility.
If you found any of the above interesting, you may also wish to consider the following:
a. Character style formatting doesn't seem to be working for me the way I think it should. You might want to follow the thread "Possible Bug with “(floating)” Character Styles" (currently located at viewtopic.php?t=27920) to see if there are any changes to or information about character styles.
b. If you have "sidebars" enabled, then pressing [Ctrl]+[F] (the default hotkey for "Search") will cause a MS Word'ish search "sidebar" to appear (in place of whatever "sidebar" you had actually wanted to see), instead of the proper TextMaker search dialog. You can get to the original TextMaker search dialog by pressing [Ctrl]+[F] again. The proper search dialog is quite more powerful, including the ability to search for characters with any particular language metadata applied.
Regrettably I am not capable of helping you, but, since you have yet to receive any help, perhaps I can point you in the direction of how you can help yourself. Then again, someone from SoftMaker will likely reply eventually, so feel free to ignore this and just remain patient.
In TextMaker, individual characters are associated with a language, either the "default" language or a specified language. (I don't think (?) PlanMaker has the same feature, and I don't know/care if Presentation does.
Presumably, the same mechanisms that you use to configure character and paragraph styles typographically could be used to specify the intended languages of paragraph and character styles. Note that changing a character or character style language changes the language metadata applied; it does not affect the text -- TextMaker doesn't magically translate text. I do not know if TextMaker's spell checker is clever enough to check the text in a document in multiple languages, or in what other ways specifying a language would have practical utility.If you found any of the above interesting, you may also wish to consider the following:
a. Character style formatting doesn't seem to be working for me the way I think it should. You might want to follow the thread "Possible Bug with “(floating)” Character Styles" (currently located at viewtopic.php?t=27920) to see if there are any changes to or information about character styles.
b. If you have "sidebars" enabled, then pressing [Ctrl]+[F] (the default hotkey for "Search") will cause a MS Word'ish search "sidebar" to appear (in place of whatever "sidebar" you had actually wanted to see), instead of the proper TextMaker search dialog. You can get to the original TextMaker search dialog by pressing [Ctrl]+[F] again. The proper search dialog is quite more powerful, including the ability to search for characters with any particular language metadata applied.
Re: Multilingual documents
Use character styles for this.
Creat a character style called "French", for instance. Set the dictionary to french, then you can add a keybinding for this style. Also make sure you add a keybinding in normal so you can return to the default language too.
Creat a character style called "French", for instance. Set the dictionary to french, then you can add a keybinding for this style. Also make sure you add a keybinding in normal so you can return to the default language too.