On 14/04/2008, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 14/04/2008, S & H Manterys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am evaluating Open Office for suitability in my non-profit small > > library catalogue. > > I have Microsoft Windows XP 2000, with Microsoft Proofing Tools for > > input of non-english spelling. > > Does Open Office database cater for non-english spelling, and how? > > Thank you > > Stan Manterys > > > > OpenOffice handles spell checking using a combination of dictionaries and > "styles". > > The first step is to download and install the dictionaries you need. This > is done via a Wizard. > > You can now set up a "default language" which will be used for spell > checking if you say nothing else. > > You can change the default language at any time. You can also change it > temporarily for "this" document. So, for example, if you normally write in > French, you would probably set your default language to French. But if you > want to write a document in German, just change to German "for this document > only". The setting will be remembered with the document. New documents will > continue to use the default French. You could also have different templates > for different languages if you prefer that mechanism. > > If you want to write multi-lingual documents you can tell OpenOffice to > use a different langauge for each paragraph or even for each word using > "styles". This subject is too complex to for a simple e-mail but is fully > documented in the free OpenOffice documentation available from the > OpenOffice web site <www.openoffice.org>. Basically you establish a > "style" for each language and then set (1 or 2 clicks) the appropriate style > as necessary. OpenOffice uses the language of the style to do spell > checking. If you do this sort of thing a lot you could set up templates > containing definitions of the appropriate styles. > > OpenOffice also makes provision for the use and spell checking of > non-Western alphabets such as Urdu, Hebrew, Esperanto etc. and for > languages like Hebrew which are written right-to-left. Again all this is > fully documented in the free user guides downloadable from the web site. > There are also books available for purchase. > > Of course, all this assumes (a) you have the relevant dictionaries > installed and (b) you have a means of entering the appropriate foreign > characters - Russian keyboard for example. > > All these mechanisms are built into OpenOffice. No separate "proofing > tools" are required. And of course, OpenOffice is free, as is the > documentation and support :-) > > Hope this helps. > > -- > Harold Fuchs > London, England > Please reply *only* to [email protected]
Whoops - Esperanto use a Western alphabet; slip of the pen. Sorry. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
