On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:52:29 +1100
Russell Butler <[email protected]> dijo:

>On 08/02/11 04:43, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> 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?

>> That does work, but apparently I have to go into Tools>  Options
>> every time I want to create a document in Spanish.
>> 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.

>Just a suggestion, could you make a template with the language set to 
>Spanish  and use that for when you want to do a whole new Spanish
>document?

Thanks for the suggestion. That does make it a bit easier when the
entire document will be in Spanish. But I still need sometimes to write
different sections of the same document in different languages, so I
still need to be able to get to the Spanish dictionary setting in an
English document.

I still think something is messed up. Either that or the OOo user
interface is hopeless. I can't believe you have to go into Tools >
Options to change a document, and then you can change only the entire
document, not just parts of it. As international as OOo is, this just
can't be true.

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