if you actually test out the dictionary (using the cmd+ctrl+D) on the
spelling of, say *colour* or *favour* or, indeed jewellery, it will
give you the words (colour is noted as being an English sp, but not
so, the others)
On 12/06/2005, at 2:54 PM, John Winters wrote:
Yes, that's what I've found too!
In the preferences for the Dictionary application in Tiger, there
is the
tantalising suggestion:
"Drag dictionaries into the order you prefer"
but the only two listings are the New Oxford American Dictionary,
and the
Oxford American Writers Thesaurus. It sort of suggests that other
dictionaries could be added and given precedence over the US
offerings, or
even that the US dictionary could be turned off.
The help files don't help, and I've not been able to find anything
on the
Apple site or through Google. Given the usually excellent
international
support built into the Mac OS, this seems a strange omission. Even
mumble$oft office gives me the option of English(Aus) in the language
support.
Anyone have any thoughts?
John
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From: Susan Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:01:27 +0800
To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: OS X Tiger Dictionary English(Aus)?
I can only find American dictionaries in the Dictionary application.
On 12/06/2005, at 11:29 AM, Rob Davies wrote:
On 11/06/2005, at 9:59 PM, John Winters wrote:
Hi WAMUGers,
Does anyone know if it is possible to replace the US dictionary
built in to
the system wide Tiger Dictionary application with an Australian
English or
UK English dictionary? I¹m getting sick of colour being underlined
in red!
I have 3 places my dictionary are controlled from:
1: System wide? This is controlled from International in your
preference folder activate or de-activate relevant language via
edit list button. Then you move them up and down to which one you
would like to be first choice then one would assume it goes down
sliding scale until it discovers the word.
2: The Dictionary application which can be activated by selecting a
word then ctrl+cmd+d. Its preferences are situated in the drop down
list menu of program name once you activate program from your
Applications folder. Select your preferred English version.
3: CocoaAspell, these are set by program controls and language
activation in Spelling > System Preferences.
Finder > Help > Mac Help > Language also gives some other
information
Cheers!
Rob Davies
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