Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Default language of hyperlinks

At 20:30 2-8-2011, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I think that post should have gone to the users list rather than 
> this one as there might be people there able to help.  Hmmm, 
> actually perhaps just posting it as a bug-report would be better?

Sure. It is now registered at 
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39794>, but I thought 
others could weigh in on the issue.

Best regards,

Christophe


>  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
> Regards from Tom :)
> ________________________________
> From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
> To: accessibility@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Tue, 2 August, 2011 18:20:35
> Subject: [libreoffice-accessibility] Default language of hyperlinks
>
> Hi,
>
> When you create a hyperlink in a Writer document (LibreOffice or 
> OpenOffce.org), the language is explicitly set to "zxx" by default 
> (this is shown in the statusbar as "[None]"). In order to identify 
> the language of a hyperlink, you need to explicitly set it by 
> selecting the link and picking a language. The cause seems to be a 
> default in Writer. When you unpack an ODT file and inspect the file 
> "styles.xml", you will find the following lines:   <style:style 
> style:name="Internet_20_link" style:display-name="Internet link" 
> style:family="text">    <style:text-properties fo:color="#000080" 
> fo:language="zxx" fo:country="none" 
> style:text-underline-style="solid" style:text-underline-width="auto" 
> style:text-underline-color="font-color" style:language-asian="zxx" 
> style:country-asian="none" style:language-complex="zxx" 
> style:country-complex="none"/>   </style:style> The relevant 
> attributes here are * fo:language="zxx" fo:country="none" * 
> style:language-asian="zxx" style:country-asian="none" * 
> style:language-complex="zxx" style:country-complex="none" It is 
> unclear to me why these defaults exist. I could not find anything in 
> the ODF 1.2 specification that justifies their existence. Some 
> background from that specification (notably section 
> 16.2<style:style>): "Styles defined by the <style:style> element use 
> a hierarchical style model. The <style:style> element supports 
> inheritance of formatting properties by a style from its parent 
> style. A parent style is specified by the style:parent-style-name 
> attribute on a <style:style> element." (Note that the style:style 
> element for hyperlinks does not have a style:parent-style-name 
> attribute.) "For styles with family text which are applied to 
> elements which are contained in another element that specifies a 
> style with family text, the search continues within the text style 
> that is applied to the nearest ancestor element that specifies a 
> style with family text, and continues in its parent styles." Based 
> on this I would expect hyperlinks to inherit language properties 
> from the paragraph within which it is contained. In my test 
> document, they would inherit * fo:language="en" fo:country="GB" * 
> style:language-asian="zh" style:country-asian="CN" * 
> style:language-complex="ar" style:country-complex="SA" (I always 
> enable East-Asian and CTL in Writer, and set the default language 
> for Asian languages to "Chinese (simplified)".) However, the default 
> hyperlink styles appear to prevent this. Authors usually forget to 
> set the language of hyperlinks, so I would be in favour of removing 
> the defaults that set the language of hyperlink text to "zxx" / 
> "[None]". Best regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven

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