On Tuesday 15 August 2006 21:58, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:33:43 +0100, Andy Pepperdine wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 August 2006 18:44, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: [...] > > > >> You should also check that Tools > Options > Language settings > Writing > >> Aids > Options has "Check all languages" enabled. > > > > That depends what you want. Doing this will not detect errors which > > happen to be valid in another language. I would only rely on setting the > > language correctly in the character style definition. [...] > > As an aside to the discussion, How do I perform a spellcheck in a > multilingual text? is a faq item which does describe a way. > > http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/word_processing/015.html
Here is my standard reply to language questions. Note that character styles define the language the text is in, so by changing the character styles, the exact language can be used in the spell checking. Languages in OpenOffice To obtain the relevant dictionaries, go to File -> Wizards -> Install new dictionaries and download the ones you want. To set the default language for your installation, go to Tools -> Options -> Language Settings / Languages and set the default for all your documents. If there is a dictionary for your selection, there will be a tick mark against it. It is important to remember that language is an attribute of the text of a document, and can be set differently in different parts of the same document. This allows foreign language quotes to be separately checked against the appropriate dictionary. To set the default for a document that is different from the default setting for all other documents, when you have opened the document (or started a new one) go to the Default style and change it there. F11 (or Format -> Styles and Formatting) brings up the style list. Right click on Default (or the root style for your document) go to Modify -> Font tab where you can set the language for this style and will be carried down to other styles derived from it unless otherwise changed. To change the language for a piece of text, highlight the text and go to Format -> Character -> Font tab (or right click -> Character -> Font) where you can set the language for just that portion of text. -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list. For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
