On 2009-05-18, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: >>> In any case I don't see why this is an objection to this feature ... >>Monolingual users do not need such a feature. If they are hit by language >>markup, they are in fact not monolingual users anymore (in a broad sense >>of multilingualism, including 'inner multilingualism', i.e. language >>varieties).
> What's wrong with one extra option: > Document->Settings-> > - Language:English > - Force all text to be the specified language:true|false It's a bit more complicated: A user might want to "normalize" language variants but keep "truly distinct" languages. E.g. I would like my documents to be either completely ngerman or completely ogerman (i.e. German with either traditional or reformed orthography) but keep English parts marked as English. > I don't see large objections to accommodate some stubborn (;-)) users. Would we also create an option to accomodate users wanting to insert consecutive spaces, tabs or linefeeds? Günter
