On 2011-02-24, Gwen Barnes wrote:

> I just want my text within LyX to be in English.  Somehow, without me
> trying, LyX seems to think that I'm writing in Afrikaans. 

Maybe some text was copied from another LyX buffer with a document in
another language?

> If I check "mark
> foreign languages" in the LyX preferences, my entire document gets
> underlined in blue. The status bar at the bottom says Font: Default,
> Language: Afrikaans.  I can't figure out how to change this.  

* Mark text
* Edit>Text>Custom> Language  [reset]

Alternatively,

* Mark text
* Esc-x language english

To the lyxperts: 
  is there an argument for the "language" LFUN to reset
  the language to the default?


Günter

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