Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-marketing] do you know where is the documentation is . . . for marketing it to schools

Hi :)
I thought that you could have different paragraphs (or smaller elements) set as 
a different language in Word or Writer.
Regards form
Tom :)



----- 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] do 
you
> > > know  where is the documentation is . . . for marketing it to  schools
> > >
> > > I think this info, with screenshots, is in  Chapter 3, Working with Text, in 
> the
> > > Writer Guide, but I could be  misremembering the chapter. It definitely is 
> in the
> > > Writer 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,  
> the
> > > spelling 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?  I  
> don't
> > > > think he is on this list but  he might be.  I  thought that it would just
> > > happen
> > >
> > > >    automatically?
> > > > Regards from
> > > > Tom  :)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   ----- Forwarded  Message ----
> > > > > From: webmaster for Kracked Press   
> Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> > > > >    To: marketing@libreoffice.org
> > > > >    Sent: Mon, 6 June, 2011 18:15:32
> > > > > Subject:  [libreoffice-marketing]  do you know where is the documentation  
> is
> > > . .
> > >
> > > > > . for marketing it to   schools
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone  know where in the  documentation where the "Language>For
> > >  Selection"
> > >
> > > > > option is   explained?
> > > > >
> > > > > I am looking to write up a  sheet that   explains spell checking a 
> document
> > >  with
> > >
> > > > > English and either Spanish,  French,  or  German, text included.  I 
cannot
> > >  find
> > >
> > > > > this  info  anywhere.
> > > > >
> > > > > I want to  use that  information as  a marketing point for the local 
> school
> > > > >  districts to use   LibreOffice in their computer labs for students  
> working
> > > on
> > >
> > > > > papers  for  their  language classes.
> > > > >
> > > > > I would  rather use  the text and images already created,  than making  
up
> > > such
> > >
> > > > >   information  myself.  I lost much of my writing skills  with my last   
> two
> > > > > strokes.  Since I use to work for one of the  local  school  districts 
> before
> > >  I
> > >
> > > > > had the stroke, I know that having  such  an ability would be a  good 
> feature
> > >  to
> > >
> > > > > market to the IT  people and somehow get  the information into the  hands 
> of
> > >  the
> > >
> > > > >   language  teachers.
> > > > >
> > > > > So If anyone has seen where  this  feature  is explained, I need to  
know.
> > > > >
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