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:
The Dictionary program does not control your system wide spell
checker. The International settings in language System Preferences
does. As does CocoaAspell if you install it.
The Dictionary application is just that a Dictionary to look up
words, similar to the one Omni released a while back, OmniDictionary.
"Drag dictionaries into the order you prefer"
In the System Preferences > International, YES! Dictionary
Application NO and apologies it only offers American Language as does
the Dictionary in Dashboard. I utilise Omni's product OmniDictionary
which uses Dict.org for it's reference and it is a free download from
Omni.
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.
Correct, but it does offer British pronunciation. It is only a lookup
Dictionary not a Spell Checker.
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.
International Language support is offered, see above.
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Cheers!
Rob Davies
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"Just take your applications and stick them in and see if they run
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