I can think of several reasons for the language changes. The main reason, I'm sure, is that most files have been worked on by many different people over the years (using OOo as well as LO), and each person may have different settings on their machine that find their way into the files. Not everyone uses the US English version of LO; some have worked on German, Italian, or other versions even though they write in English. Words and paragraphs get copied from one file to another... the styles have a long, convoluted history, some helpers have used manual formatting that was badly removed -- or not removed -- by others, etc etc.
Jean On 04/05/2012, at 1:21, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > I've not tried this sort of thing with LibreOffice documentation but often > have found it in other documents, usually websites. Some types of characters > are extremely prolific while other ones that would be nice to have are missed > out of a font's range. Both ways around it causes problems. > > I'm surprised it crops up in LO documentation and also surprised to hear the > language keeps switching. One of the many reasons i prefer LO to MS Office > is that it tends to stay with the style you started with instead of switching > randomly for no apparent reason. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > --- On Tue, 1/5/12, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: John Smith <[email protected]> > Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide 3.4 > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, 1 May, 2012, 20:45 > > Hi > Chapter 3 of the guide has been uploaded to ODF Calc Drafts. > Chapter 4 now in progress. > > > The apostrophe! > Just curious here, but ... > Doing a search or a search and replace looking for the apostrophe used in > 'contractions' like 'we'll', returns no hits, even when I'm sitting three > lines above one. It finds the 'we', and it finds the 'll', but not the whole > word, nor the apostrophe alone. Over-typing the apostrophe and doing the > search finds it ok. > So I was just curious about what character is used for the apostrophe in the > documents, if it's not U+0027. > As I said, just curious. > > John -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
