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[Ove Steen]

I am working with a long text (diary from a holiday in Italy) mixed up with many italian words an sentences. There I want to a apply italian spejling and hyphnenation.

I want to create a keyboard to do that. Is it possible? How?

[walt.farrell]

There are probably several ways, and some may depend on whether you're on a Mac or Windows machine. So please let us know that.

One method that doesn't depend on your OS:

1. Create a Character Text Style that you'll use for Italian, and call it something, perhaps Italian. You can base it on the base style you'll use for the main language, which I'll call Body here.
2. Set the Italian Character Text Style to have a Spelling Language of Italian. And give this Text Style a shortcut key.
3. Also give the Body Text Style a (different) shortcut key.

Then, when typing your text, when you want an Italian word or phrase, press the shortcut key you setup in step 2. After you finish that phrase, press the shortcut key you setup in step 3.

[Ove Steen]

My computer is a Mac.

The situation where I want to change the language may be single words or groups of words in a pragraph describing har we eat and drink with the correct italian words. Then I can control the spelling and be sure, that the hyphenation will be correct.

So I imagine that I can click og mark the words and give them the right language for spelling and hyphenation while they keep the paragraph style. 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Ove Steen said:

So I imagine that I can click og mark the words and give them the right language for spelling and hyphenation while they keep the paragraph style. 

Yes. If the words exist already, you can click/select them, and press your shortcut key for the Character Text Style you defined, and they will keep the same Paragraph Text Style. This will have additional complications, though, if the Italian words already have character styling applied that you don't want to override.

[Ove Steen]

Yes, it is easy to create the character style. But I do not understand how to apply the keyboard shortcut. If the style shows up in the list of styles, is it a tool item or a men item? And how do I apply the shortcut? And just want to be able to select the word/words and do the shortcut, and voila...!

And I want the Shortcuts to work with all new Publisher documents.

There are a lot of possibilixies in the Settings. I don't think most of them are of any importance for me. I am the only user. I don't have to personalize anything.

[thomaso]

Double-click a text style name to open its "Edit Text Style" window. There on the the first page ("Style" | "General") the 5th entry is "Keyboard shortcut".

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Ove Steen said:

And I want the Shortcuts to work with all new Publisher documents.

The shortcuts depend on the Text Styles that you have defined. You could:

1. Create a Template document with your Text Styles, and select that Template from the File > New dialog, rather than using a Preset. 
   or
2. Set up your Text Styles, then from the Text Style Options (3-bar icon on the upper-right of the panel, also called the Burger menu) you could save them as Defaults. Then new documents (not created from Templates) would have them automatically, too.

[Ove Steen]

3-bar icon on the upper-right of the panel has "Show Typography" which gives a box, where I can do nothing.

The simple question is: Where can I go to edit a paragraph style, and where can I go to edit a Character style.

The problem is:

I have a Paragraph Style for my diary called "Menu" telling what we did eat and drink on our holiday in Italy. There I want to change the spelling for single italian words into italian. Now when I created a Character Style called "Italian" the default language for the Paragraph Style was changed into Italian.

I am sorry to take your time. But it is very difficult to look up the answers in the Help-Menu.

[Old Bruce]

7 minutes ago, Ove Steen said:

The simple question is: Where can I go to edit a paragraph style, and where can I go to edit a Character style.

 

The Text Styles panel, not the Paragraph or Character Panels.

[thomaso]

2 minutes ago, Ove Steen said:

The simple question is: Where can I go to edit a paragraph style, and where can I go to edit a Character style.

Wasn't this answered above, "Double-click a text style name" … :

4 hours ago, thomaso said:

Double-click a text style name to open its "Edit Text Style" window.

There, also be aware of your "Based on" and "Next Style" settings when creating or editing a saved text style, to avoid confusion and/or unwanted influence of one style to another.

[Ove Steen]

And text styles may be Paragraph Styles as well as Character Styles?

When you create a new style based on another style and give the new style new  characteristics it should not influence the styles which it is based on? Shouldn't it?

[walt.farrell]

18 minutes ago, Ove Steen said:

And text styles may be Paragraph Styles as well as Character Styles?

Yes. 

19 minutes ago, Ove Steen said:

When you create a new style based on another style and give the new style new  characteristics it should not influence the styles which it is based on? Shouldn't it?

It doesn't.

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Ove Steen said:

And text styles may be Paragraph Styles as well as Character Styles?

Yes, in Affinity you can assign a paragraph style as a character style. This means that you apply only the character properties of this paragraph style. Then you may get two paragraph styles highlighted simultaneously while one of them is listed as character style in the Context Toolbar / the Character panel.

[Oufti]

9 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

9 hours ago, Ove Steen said:

When you create a new style based on another style and give the new style new  characteristics it should not influence the styles which it is based on? Shouldn't it?

It doesn't.

But the reverse will: if you change the Base style, all styles based upon it will be changed accordingly.