Issue 106216

Summary:	Usability improvement: "Hyphenate all" button
Product:	lingucomponent	Reporter:	gleppert <gleppert>
Component:	other	Assignee:	requirements <requirements>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	issues@lingucomponent <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	frank.loehmann, issues, thomas.lange
Version:	OOo 3.1.1
Target Milestone:	OOo 3.3
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description gleppert 2009-10-23 07:40:45 UTC

This seems to be a "low hanging fruit" in terms of usability enhancements:

Please add a button "hyphenate all without asking" to the dialog "extras ->
language -> hyphenation"

I have seen many people who do not apply style sheets having enabled automatic
hyphenation. They, indeed, just use the described dialog and get annoyed that
they need to click a 1000 times on the button "Trennen"/"Hyphenate" in a 50 page
document.

Thank you!

Comment 1 thomas.lange 2009-10-23 11:40:15 UTC

Adding FL to cc list.

Actually there already is a way to have that dialog do things automatically and
thus not show up at all. It is the check box named "Hyphenate without inquiry"
under "Tools/Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids" in the lower list box.
Obviously its kinda hard to find there.

Ultimately however I believe that you also do not really want that dialog to do
things automatically, since it would still insert soft-hyphens. I think people
would prefer something like a toolbar button (e.g. next to the spell check
button) that toggles automatic hyphenation in the same way as it happens from
the "Format/Paragraph" dialog, because that way hyphenation works automatically
even without inserting soft-hyphens.

Comment 2 gleppert 2009-10-23 17:41:41 UTC

@tl:

I don't know the technical difference between soft-hyphens and automatic
hyphenation. I just saw some people loosing their patience with that dialog,
because they got stuck there and kept on clicking on the "hyphenate"-button
until they reached the last page of the document. :-) I am not joking.

Your solution sounds very good indeed, but there should be a similar button like
you describe it, in that dialog, too.

Comment 3 thomas.lange 2009-10-26 07:31:39 UTC

Changing UI is a 'request for enhancement'. Changing owner accordingly.

Comment 4 thomas.lange 2009-10-26 07:32:03 UTC

Comment 5 gleppert 2010-09-02 22:02:40 UTC

As far as I see, this issue is indeed fixed in OpenOffice.org 3.3 Beta. The
"Hyphenate all" button seems to work correctly. Any other opinion?

Comment 6 thomas.lange 2010-09-03 12:55:41 UTC

The button itself works.
If it does so by inserting soft hyphens or by setting the respective options in
"Format/Paragraph" is implementation detail, thus I guess we can set this as
duplicate now.


*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 108358 ***

Comment 7 thomas.lange 2010-09-03 12:56:14 UTC

duplicate -> closing.