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Thanks Stephan for the suggestion, but this is the first thing I have tried. Thinking about it, maybe this operation has created this confusion, given that at the moment of the operation, part of my document was in English, and the rest in Français. Maybe giving a global common language has posed a problem to Lyx (is English stronger that Français^2? :-) )? This kind of operation should be quite simple and reliable in a word processor I think. I understand that changing the language of the document should not change the language of already written paragraphs (since we can have paragraphs in another language, deliberately put in the document), but marking a paragraph manually with a language should reliably work IMHO. This is a bug I imagine. If I summarize my problem: 1/ I have created a new document the default language of which was English; 2/ I have written two paragraphs in French in it, then I have seen the wavy red lines and understood that I have not changed the default language); 3/ I have opened the document properties and switched the language to Français; 4/ I have written other paragraphs in French, it was OK. 5/ I have seen that the first two paragraphs was continuing to pose problem (which is normal); 6/ I have marked the whole document them with the mouse + right-click+Language and selected Français. 7/ I was surprised to observe that the red wavy lines were persisting 8/ I have checked the language at the status bar, it continued to show English at the beginning of the paragraph. 9/ I have selected the paragraph with the mouse + right-click+Language and selected Français again 10/ The problem persisted. So, I do not know what happens. When I have finished this urgent document, I will check the content of the .lyx file to try to understand what is wrong with this file. If you have any other idea in the mean time... Concerning only two paragraphs, my specific problem is not important, but I have the impression that it is more general and could be meet for bigger chunks of text. In which case, that could be much more painful. regards, Murat 2011/9/19 Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net>: > Am 19.09.2011 um 21:24 schrieb Murat Yildizoglu: > >> The same problem happens! Even if I choose Paste Special/Unformatted text. >> >> Even worst. I have changed individually all the offending words to >> French (with a right-click+Language). The paragraph was looking OK (no >> underlined word). Then I have chosen the whole paragraph and selected >> French as the Language and Bang! English has came back. I am >> completely puzzled on this case... I know that British are well >> reputed for their resistance (against Hitler's bombs, for example), >> but this is stronger than their reputation ;-) > > :) > > I propose to mark the whole document and change the language to French. > I really can understand your distress... I think the default document > language is surprising at least for all non-english users. Especially, > when there is made such a great afford to provide an user interface > matching the users language environment. > > Stephan > >> 2011/9/19 Hal Kierstead <kierst...@asu.edu>: >>> What happens if you cut the offending paragraphs and then paste them back? >>> Hal >>> >>> On Sep 19, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am using Lyx 2.0.1 under OSX. I have started to type a document. The >>>> document is in French, but I have forgotten first to switch the >>>> document properties/Language from English to French. After two >>>> paragraphs I woke up and done the change, but now it continues to >>>> check the first paragraphs in English, whatever I try... I have >>>> selected all paragraphs + right-click + Language+Français, but it >>>> continues to indicate English at the bottom of the screen. >>>> >>>> I have also tried to do it paragraph by paragraph, but without any >>>> success. It continues to think that the text is in English. >>>> >>>> Moreover, I have also tried to choose Français as language in >>>> Tools/Spell-check but it switches by itself to English as soon as >>>> raise the mouse button in the selection box. >>>> >>>> What is the magic way of asking to Lyx to set the language to the one >>>> we select? Is there a way? >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance for your ideas. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Murat >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Prof. Murat Yildizoglu >>>> Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV >>>> GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) >>>> Avenue Léon Duguit >>>> 33608 Pessac cedex >>>> France >>>> >>>> yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr >>>> http://yildizoglu.info >>>> http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Prof. Murat Yildizoglu >> Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV >> GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) >> Avenue Léon Duguit >> 33608 Pessac cedex >> France >> >> yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr >> http://yildizoglu.info >> http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu > > -- Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) Avenue Léon Duguit 33608 Pessac cedex France yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr http://yildizoglu.info http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu -- Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) Avenue Léon Duguit 33608 Pessac cedex France yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr http://yildizoglu.info http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu
