"John Jason Jordan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:20110206180124.35732718@Devil8...
OOo 3.2.1 from openoffice.org (not repositories) on Fedora 14 x86_64.
Under Tools > Language there are three choices:
For Selection
For Paragraph
For All Text
Regardless of which I select, the language options change. English is
always available, as are "None - Do not check spelling" and "More ..."
Clicking on More... gets me the Language dialog box in Options, which
allow me to set the language of the User Interface, and of the Locale
Setting. I can also set the default language for documents. But there
seems to be no way to set optional dictionaries.
I have the English, Spanish and French dictionaries installed
in /opt/openoffice.org3/share/extension/install/.
Sometimes when I go into Tools > Language I get the option of English
(always) Spanish (sometimes), Portuguese (sometimes), never French, and
sometimes two or three of the above. There is no consistency. And note
that there is no Portuguese dictionary installed.
At the moment I am trying to write a document in Spanish and the
Spanish option does not appear. Closing and restarting OOo makes no
difference. The only way I can create a new document with the Spanish
language setting is to open a document that does have Spanish language
set (done once when Spanish appeared in the menu), save under a new
name, and delete all the text.
Something is seriously messed up with the language settings. Does
anyone have any idea what to look for?
If you go into Tools>Options>Language Settings>Languages, then in the right
hand pane is the "Default language for documents". The section there
labelled "Western" has a drop-done box containing a list of languages. Take
a look at that list. Many languages are shown. Some have a little blue tick
(check mark) superscripted to its left by "ABC". The dictionary for a listed
language is installed and recognised on your system *if and only if* that
tick/ABC is present for the language in question.
To write a document in Spanish, go to the above menu choice and select
Spanish from the drop-down list. When you have chosen Spanish from the
drop-down list check for the tick/ABC. If it's there OK; if not you need to
install the Spanish dictionary extension (I'd kill the Quickstarter before
installing the dictionary and then kill and restart OOo Writer &
Quickstarter afterwards but many on this list would say that's unnecessary).
Once the Spanish dictionary is selected and *recognised*, choose "Only for
this document". Spanish spell checking should now work.
If after all this you still have problems, come back here with more details.
Oh, is your OOo the "generic" one or some special version from a Fedora
repository? I have no idea if this makes a difference in this case but, from
reading this list for a while, it has done in other areas of OOo's behaviour
on different Linuxes (Linices?).
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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