On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 12:34 +0100, Brian E. Blandford wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > >On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 09:32 +0100, Brian E. Blandford wrote: > > > > > >>Brian E. Blandford wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Daniel Kasak wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Brian E. Blandford wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > > > >[snipped] > > > > > > > >>> > >>> > >>Something curious: although I cannot get any spell checker (even the > >>default US English) on 2.0 Writer, I have now discovered that in 2.0 > >>Draw, Calc, and Impress, the UK English spell checker works perfectly. > >>So at least I know the dictionaries really are installed. > >> > >> > >> > > > >I cannot reproduce your problem even using the example from > >http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=40240 > > > >Have you checked your character settings? That is one place that is > >language dependent and, if you have none, then I recall no checking is > >done. > > > > > > > > > I've got a solution at last, though it's one I don't understand. My > chosen default font in Writer was Times. But if I change the font to, > say, one of the Bitstream Vera or Nimbus families, the spell checker > works. (The default font in the other components of OOo I had left at > Bitstream Vera) And that seems to be the answer. The spell checker does > not work with Times - which is no great loss as the print quality from > that font is so poor I was thinking of giving it up anyway. > I would be interested to know if there are other fonts the spell-checker > doesn't work with. > > Brian B. > >
Fonts have a language associated with it. Please highlight a word or character that exhibits the problem, right-click to open the context menu, select character and have a look at the Font tab > Language dropdown. What does this say? -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
