On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:32:54 -0000 "Harold Fuchs" <[email protected]> dijo:
>"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. In that dialog box "Spanish - Spain" is checked and it has the ABC in front of it. >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. That does work, but apparently I have to go into Tools > Options every time I want to create a document in Spanish. >If after all this you still have problems, come back here with more >details. If I open a new text document Tools > Language still does not list Spanish until I go into Tools > Options > Language Settings and select Spanish just for the new document. This is a pain. I can't believe this is by design. Whatever dictionaries are installed should appear in Tools > Language for all documents all the time. Moreover, I have no Portuguese dictionaries installed, yet occasionally Tools > Language shows Portuguese as an option. And sometimes Spanish does appear as an option in Tools > Language, even without going into Tools > Options > Language Settings. I think there is something messed up, but I don't know where to look. >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?). It is OOo 3.2.1, OOO320m18 (Build: 9502) on Fedora 14 x86_64. It was installed by downloading from OOo, not from the repositories. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
