On 2010-02-28, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:
>> Yes, that's exactly the point. If there are latin characters on screen >> in LyX, we don't want to have greek letters appearing in the output >> right ? > No. If I use the transliteration, I want exactly this. >> Even though the latin characters are marked as greek language (which would >> only affect the spellchecking, hyphenation... ? Or is this a feature ? > Yes, it's a feature,as you noticed in the meantime. It is a feature that dates back to pre-Unicode times (actually even back to 7bit ASCII times). It is still handy for the occasional Greek quote for people without Greek keyboard, but stands in the way for others. This is why this feature should be optional. > As I see it, the user wants a quick way to switch between two commonly > used languages (a good shortcut for "language greek" and "language > english" or bind that functions to the action Greek users perform to > switch between English and Greek, if any). This is just one side. The other is to keep Latin input of e.g. a file name in Latin spelling. Günter
