On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 08:54:58 -0500 Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you have missed one very important step: the paragraph style > for the paragraph in which the German language is used. It contains the > control for which language is checked for spelling. Yours probably is > one of the English languages depending upon what country in which you > live. Change that setting to German. Also make sure the your selection > contains an ABC before the name of the language. > > Dan It may also be that you will need to use a more sophisticated tool than OpenOffice provides. Consider checking if languagetool.org offer a version to handle German. Rory > > On 2/15/21 7:41 AM, Felmon Davis wrote: > > Greets! > > > > I'm not easy with the German system of capitalization; if I write > > something without capitalizing the nouns, is there a way to run a > > spell-checker or something which will do that? > > > > I installed dict-de_de-igerman98_2011-06-21.oxt into OpenOffice 4.1.8 > > and selected "Tools/Language/For all text/German" and note that > > "Options/Language Settings/Language" has German as default for documents. > > > > however spell-check breezes through without touching the document. > > > > (a) maybe there was an error in the way I installed the template? > > > > (b) suppose it worked, would it flag nouns without capitals? > > > > appreciated! > > > > fjd > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
