On 21/02/07, Kirsten Chevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm editing a document that's an anthology of articles, some of which use British spelling, some of which use American spelling. Thus, for spellcheck, I'd really like to use a dictionary consisting of the union of the British English and the American English dictionary. Is this possible in OO.org 2.1? It looks like under Tools -> Spellcheck I'm forced to choose a single dictionary language. (I guess one workaround would be to use separate documents for each article, since the spelling is consistent within each article, and then combine them with a master document, but I'd prefer to avoid that.) Thanks, Kirsten -- Kirsten Chevalier* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Often in error, never in doubt "Ninety-nine percent of everything that is done in the world, good and bad, is done to pay a mortgage. The world would be a much better place if everyone rented." -- Christopher Buckley --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No. You need to do a few things: 1. Install both US and UK dictionaries. Use File>Wizards>Install New Dictionaries to install the ones you don't have. 2. Make one of them the "Default language for documents" at Tools>Options>language Settings>Languages. 3. Ensure that each language on that same pane has a check mark and a little "abc" by it; if not, the dictionary isn't properly installed. 4. At Tools>Options>Language Settings>Writing Aids, make sure "Check in all languages" is checked (selected) in the bottom pane inder "options". 5. Create a "style" for each language - see the Help for how to do this. Fr each style, make the "next style" setting point to itself so you can automatically create multiple paragraphs in the same language without changing anything. This way you only change styles when you change languages. 6. Now select the style appropriate to the *paragraph* you are working on. The spell checking will be done in the language specified by the style. Language is an attribute of the *character* style so, in theory, you could change styles/languages mid sentence and the spell checking would still be correct. Believe me, it sounds worse than it is ;-) -- Harold Fuchs London, England
