On 02/05/2008 10:16, Kirill Palagin wrote:
Since 2.4 you can easily assign language to text with the help of
status bar control (left to zoom indicator) - see
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1034.
Since 3.0 Writer will be able to assign language based on keyboard
layout - see http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1035.
Bob Redman ?????:
I am using version 2.4.0 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is :
I find the use of the spell-checking feature of Writer very
cumbersome to use when I try to correct texts in Italian or Spanish.
Writer usually misidentifies the language as Romanian, or something
else.
Why can't I simply predetermine the language I am trying to write in?
Bob Redman
Jacksonville, FL
If your document is monoglot, go to Tools>Options>Language
Settings>Languages and choose the language you want from the drop down
list. You can set the language "for all documents" or "for this document
only". The "for all documents" setting is "remembered" within OOo's
configuration files; the "for this document only" is "remembered" within
the document.
If your document is polyglot you can either set the language for a piece
of text as Mr. Palagin describes above or, especially if you plan to
write a lot of polyglot documents, you can pre-create a set of "styles"
for each language which you can save as a polyglot "template". The
procedure is a bit long to describe here - even though it's very simple.
Please read up about "styles" and "templates" in the documentation based
at <http://documentation.openoffice.org/>. Note that Language is an
attribute set within Character styles. Having done this you just choose
the "style" you want for each word, phrase, sentence, paragraph or whatever.
In either case you need to have installed *all* the dictionaries you
need. At Tools>Options>Language Settings>Languages is the list of
possible languages. A dictionary for a particular language is only
installed if its name in this list has a little blue "abc" and a tick
(check mark) next to it. To install new dictionaries go to
File>Wizards>Install New Dictionaries and choose the ones you want.
Note that some languages have only spelling dictionaries whereas others
may also have a hyphenation dictionary and/or a thesaurus.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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