raymond wrote:
I did as follow:
I open a new file in OO.
Than, File --> open a RTF file of one page which is already in French.
The french file opened well on the OO inter-face.
Clicking on the Spell icon opened the speller. I changed the language at
the top of the speller ( I attached screen pictures since i didn't know
the list doesn't aloud attachments.) into French, and started to check
spell.
I'll try to attach here URLs of the screen pictures to make the
situation clearer, I hope.
First screen picture:
http://skitch.com/jackriklar/ixrh/picture-3
Second screen picture:
http://skitch.com/jackriklar/ixfd/picture-5
I hope I am clearer now.
You still haven’t made it clear that your text is marked as being in
French. Changing the top of the spell checker to French won't change the
language marked in the text.
You are allowed to have mixed styles in OpenOffice.org Writer in respect
to language, that is the same file may have a paragraph in English, a
paragraph in French, and a paragraph in Portuguese with a German phrase,
all marked for language. Spell checking will work on all of these at the
same time, provided you also have the proper dictionaries installed. The
important thing is not what the spell checker is set for, but what
language the text is marked as.
The language is set in the text as a font attribute. That is, when you
check any position in your text, you may check the “Character” attribute
and see what the language is under the font.
I suspect that you have not done this. The language set for the current
cursor position or cursor selection appears in the third panel in the
status bar at the bottom of the window, if your current selection covers
an area of your text that is all marked for the same language.
For example, select all your text by pressing CTRL-A. Then using the
“Format” menu, select “Character”. Select the Font tab in the dialog box
that pop up, and set the language in that box to a French language that
has a checkmark beside it, and which suits you. The checkmark means that
a dictionary for that French language is installed.
This is a quick and dirty method for setting the language.
Language is better set through Styles, that is by pressing F11,
selecting the first icon in the icons in the bar at the top (that is the
“¶” icon, and then selecting “Applied Styles” in the choice at the
bottom of the dialog box. The list of styles will now show only those
paragraph styles currently in use in your document. It may only show one
style, that is “Default”. In any case, right click on all paragraph
styles being used, one at a time, and for each paragraph style select
“Modify...”, and then select the Font tab and make sure that the
Language box shows a checked French language.
The second icon on your dialog box tool bar, the “A” icon is for
character styles. These also can have languages associated with them. If
any show up as “Applied Styles”, they should also be looked at. Finally,
someone may have manually overwritten some or all of your document with
formatting which includes language formatting.
You can also select from your main menu Tools → Options → Language
Settings → Languages and set the default western language to a French
language which has a check mark beside it. This will normally reset some
or all of your currently applied styles to use the same French language.
But you should still perform the check with F11 that I suggested above.
There is a hierarchy. Manual formatting, including language formatting,
overwrites all style formatting and character style formatting
overwrites paragraph style formatting.
Jim Allan
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