Hello Dale, On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 01:51:45AM -0500, Dale Erwin wrote: > On 8/1/2014 1:26 AM, Dale Erwin wrote: > > > >>It really doesn't matter what languages happen to be offered here, > >>as you can easily select More... at the bottom of the list, > >>whereupon you can choose from the full set of languages. Spelling > >>checking will be available in only those languages for which you > >>have spelling dictionaries installed. > >> > >>This method of selecting language sets the local character property. > >>Remember that you may prefer to do this through character styles or > >>paragraph styles. > > > > > >OK, just now, to test what you are telling me, I opened a new > >document and entered some text in Spanish (nothing else in the > >document) then I highlighted it, clicked on Tools -> Language -> > >Selection and the only two languages offered are English (which is > >checked I presume because English is set as the default language) and > >Catalan. So I clicked on More, as you suggest, and I get a dialog > >box named "character" with tabs for Font, Font Effects, Position, > >Hyperlink and Background. > > That's probably all moot, because I just found a web page: > <https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Languagepack> and it says: "A > Language pack is a type of add-on for OpenOffice.org to get more > languages integrated without to install more than one Office set. It > contains only files to display, e.g., menus and dialogs in a specific > language incl. the spell checking libraries (since OOo 3.2). If > available the help content is also translated." > > So evidently you are mistaken about the language packs not including > the spell checking LIBRARIES (not dictionaries), and now I am back at > square one. I realize that Spanish and Catalan are very similar > languages, but I don't have Catalan installed and I do have Spanish > installed.
Language packs do not include dictionaries, only the full install sets include them; this is a known issue tracked under https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124473 Dictionaries are extensions, so you have to search for a dictionary in the extension's site: http://extensions.openoffice.org/ Concerning the list of languages offered on the "Tools" - "Language"-"For Selection|Paragraph|all text" (you can access a similar menu from the status bar control that displays the current language), this list is built from a feature called "language guessing", and does not depend on the installed dictionaries. "Language guessing" is just a guess, as its name says, so don't expect it to be 100% reliable. Concerning the "Character" dialog that you can open from the menu "Tools" - "Language" - "For Selection" - "More..." (or from the context menu: right-click on the selected text and select "Character..."), the "Language" is an attribute of the "Font", so you will find it on the "Font" tab, in a list box. This location of the "Language" attribute is rather misleading, ideally there should be a toolbar item to set the language - something like http://aoo-ui-extras.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/git.wiki/LanguageBox_dropdown.png Also note the original suggestion made by Brian: instead of this way of settings the language attribute (known as "hard formatting"), it is better to use styles. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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