On Thursday 11 January 2007 2:18 pm, Andrew Brown wrote:
> Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
>
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > The dictionaries are in C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org
> > 2.x\share\dict\ooo for version 2.x of OO. Their names all have a
> > ".dic" extension. I suppose that if you really want to you could
> > delete some of them. But why? OpenOffice will only ever consult
> > the ones it needs at spell-check time. For a single language
> > document that's just one dictionary; even if your document has
> > checkable text in 5 languages OO will still only consult 5
> > dictionaries. If you don't write German OO won't reference the
> > German dictionaries. I doubt having more dictionaries will slow
> > down the operation of the software; I'd be interested to know why
> > you think it will. True, they take up disk space; if that's an
> > issue for you then ...
>
> My experience is that multiple dictionaries do slow down OOo,
> sometimes to the point of unusability if the dictionary.lst file is
> not edited.
>
> The only way to get it to check a document in multimple languages
> seems to be to check the option to check in all languages, and,
> when that happens, it seems to check all the languages in the
> dictionary.list. I know this is stupid. But I have noticed large
> speed gains when I cut back to the two languages I actually use,
> though this is -- obviously -- more noticeable on long files.
Andrew:
If you were to create paragraph styles for each language
(character styles also if need be), you would not have this problem.
If a particular paragraph style has its language setting as English
(AU) for example, the spellchecker will compare the words in
paragraphs with this style against the English (AU) dictionary.
Dan
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