Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Default language of hyperlinks

Hi :)
Brilliant :)  Nicely done :)  Yes, i hadn't thought about that.
Apols and regards from
Tom :)




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From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
To: accessibility@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wed, 3 August, 2011 10:42:02
Subject: 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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