On 06/07/2011 08:54 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
The problem was the last time I used Word, I could not spell check any non-English document I was trying to deal with when I had to type in a Spanish document from the books the teacher had, so the students would have some more work after the work the teacher provided ran out and they needed more work to do.Hi :) I thought that you could have different paragraphs (or smaller elements) set as a different language in Word or Writer. Regards form Tom :)
The key is "easy way" to spell check a Spanish paragraph or section withing a English document. The easier it is, and the more languages you can use without having to buy extra stuff [like a Spanish version of MSO], the better the teachers, the students, and the school's budget will like it. That is why I loved to see the language packs were all you needed to download so you could have a single package that could use several different languages for the menus, and as many other languages that can be spell checked that is not the language used for the menu. Keeping the lab computers set with Windows, and having the ability to spell check all the languages being taught in school is something the users of the labs would like a lot. Now if only the kids would not be able to switch the menus from English.
----- Original Message ----From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com> To: marketing@libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, 7 June, 2011 12:12:19 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-marketing] do you know where is the documentation is . . . for marketing it to schools On 06/07/2011 05:34 AM, Tom Davies wrote:Hi :) Hopefully Jean's answer at the top, just under this reply, might have the answer. Good luck and regards from Tom :)Thanks, I am not on the Documentation list. Chapter 3, Page 22-23 I missed that, but I was going through the full book of 0200WG3-WriterGuide.odt. What I want to describe to the IT people and the Language teachers is how the students can use LibreOffice to type up and spell check their assignments. They may have English and Spanish/French/German, which ever language they are studying, in the same document. I wanted to show them that they can easily do the spell checking in several languages in the same document. As far as I can tell, you cannot do this in MSO. I want the local schools to have LibreOffice as an option for their computers, and have the students be able to download a copy for their home computers. I would love to have the language teachers tell their students about LibreOffice, but I need to somehow get the message to the students about LibreOffice as their option over having to deal with MSO. How may of these students will be asking for new computers so they would have LibreOffice for free instead of buying a copy of MSO for that new computer. It is too late to start a campaign for those students going to college this summer/fall. On the page http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/LibreOffice_In_Academia we need to get more info there about using the package for grades 7-12, not just college level students. There should be more info, like the multi-language option for the student taking language classes. New York requires two years of non-English language classes to be able to graduate.----- Original Message ----From: Jean Weber<> To: "documentation@libreoffice.org"<documentation@libreoffice.org> Sent: Tue, 7 June, 2011 0:22:21 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-marketing] doyouknow where is the documentation is . . . for marketing it to schools I think this info, with screenshots, is in Chapter 3, Working with Text, intheWriter Guide, but I could be misremembering the chapter. It definitely isin theWriter Guide somewhere, because I remember writing it! Tom, I believe he is asking about the way to mark certain passages as one language or another, which is not automatic. Once the passages are marked,thespelling checker knows which language to use and does so automatically. Jean On 07/06/2011, at 3:15, Tom Davies<tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:Hi :) Does anyone happen to know an answer for Webmaster at KrackedPress? Idon'tthink he is on this list but he might be. I thought that it would justhappenautomatically? Regards from Tom :) ----- Forwarded Message ----From: webmaster for Kracked PressProductions<webmaster@krackedpress.com>To: marketing@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 6 June, 2011 18:15:32 Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] do you know where is the documentationis. .. for marketing it to schools Does anyone know where in the documentation where the "Language>ForSelection"option is explained? I am looking to write up a sheet that explains spell checking adocumentwithEnglish and either Spanish, French, or German, text included. Icannotfindthis info anywhere. I want to use that information as a marketing point for the localschooldistricts to use LibreOffice in their computer labs for studentsworkingonpapers for their language classes. I would rather use the text and images already created, than makingupsuchinformation myself. I lost much of my writing skills with my lasttwostrokes. Since I use to work for one of the local school districtsbeforeIhad the stroke, I know that having such an ability would be a goodfeaturetomarket to the IT people and somehow get the information into the handsofthelanguage teachers. So If anyone has seen where this feature is explained, I need toknow.-- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+help@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted-- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+help@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot bedeleted
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