Hi all, For the details about what language entries get listed can be found in the following spec http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/linguistic/Set_Language_Attribute_for_Text.odt
in the section named 'Dynamic Language List Generation for Context Menu'. >>>> Regardless of which I select, the language options change. English is >>>> always available, as are "None - Do not check spelling" and ... >>>> 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? There is nothing messed up. From your description above it still looks like everything works as designed. For the details about what language entries get listed those can be found in the following spec http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/linguistic/Set_Language_Attribute_for_Text.odt in the section named 'Dynamic Language List Generation for Context Menu'. The list of languages displayed is populated considereing various OOo user settings, the text at the cursor position (i.e. language guessing, which can even suggest languages that are not installed), the languages already used in the document, and for Windows the keyboard language as well. Please note that the shorter a text is the more likely it is for language guessing to fail an suggest seemingly arbitrary languages. Aside from that it is as has already been said: to create a document in a specific language either go to 'Tools>Options>Language Settings>Languages' or use the 'For all text' entry from 'Tools>Languages'. Please note that there was a change in the implementation of this menu entry for OOo 3.3. Prior to OOo 3.3 it left the language where styles got applied unchanged (thus you could still end up with some text not being set to the new language), since OOo 3.3 the language is hard set for the whole text and thus there should no remainders of other languages text parts be left. Regards, Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
