Christopher Reeve wrote: > Thanks to you both. It worked. I had not thought to check in the document > settings as I assumed it was a global setting, but now I think about it, it > makes sense to be in the document settings. Because the default is a global > preference perhaps it would make sense for one to be able to change the > default setting also in one or two other places - such as in the spell > checker window or within the global preferences. That is my philosophy > anyway: that there should often be more than one way to do the same thing.
The point here is not "global preference" vs. "document setting". The point is that the UI language is completely separate from the document language. The fact that I use a German UI localization does not in any way determine in which language(s) I write my documents. Having said that, you can change the default document language, as described in my first response: just hit the "Save as Document Defaults" button in the document settings dialog (as a matter of fact, there was a "default language" setting in the preferences in earlier LyX versions, but we removed it, in favour of the current "template" solution) Jürgen
